The court also said the award has been approved by it in its judgment on February 7, 2014 and, therefore, has to be “implemented in full”.

Granting one more opportunity for implementation of the Wage Board award and its judgement, the court said non-implementation or partial implementation clearly stemmed from the understanding of the award by the concerned newspaper establishments in a particular manner.

The apex court was delivering its judgement while disposing off 83 contempt petitions filed by journalists, non-journalists and associations.