Sun Pharmaceutical Industries Limited challenged an award dated 18 December 2024 passed by the 2nd Labour Court, West Bengal, which had reinstated a former District Manager (Respondent No. 2) with 50% back wages after setting aside his termination. The employee had been terminated following a domestic enquiry arising from his refusal to accept a transfer from Kolkata to Chennai, which he alleged was a vindictive act by management after he was given a clean chit in an earlier disciplinary proceeding. The Labour Court had found the employee to be a 'workman' under the Industrial Disputes Act, 1947, and held the domestic enquiry to be neither legal nor valid, describing the enquiry officer's report as non-speaking, cryptic, and ipse dixit. Before the Calcutta High Court, the petitioner argued, inter alia, that the employee was not a 'workman', that transfer cannot be adjudicated in a Section 10(1B) proceeding, that the Industrial Employment (Standing Orders) Act, 1946 was wrongly applied, and that back wages were unwarranted given evidence of additional family income post-termination. The High Court reserved judgment on 10 September 2026 and delivered it on 7 October 2026, with the full operative findings cut off in the provided text.