A Noida factory worker walked off the job one day in May 2012 without telling anyone where he was going, why he was leaving, or when he would be back. He did not send a letter. He did not file a leave application. He did not pick up the phone.
Yet somehow, over the next decade, he convinced two separate courts that the fault lay with his employer — and walked away with reinstatement orders, back wages, and a string of consequential benefits attached.
