Forcefully Terminate 5 Employees, Now They Are In Court

Dear Pawan,
What I could gather from your post is that every thing was verbal on your part and nothing on record, i.e., no show cause notice, no charge sheet, no domestic inquiry, no opportunity to defend themselves, no resignation, but just strightaway termination. If no HR department exists, Admn has to play the role of HR and keep the employment records intact and updated and observe other formalities pertaining to service matters of the employees and employee-employer relations.
Now you should better hire services of some HR/ service laws expert as a consultant to keep the things in order at least for future to come. Certainly, once these employees are reinstated they would becoume the source of extreme indiscipline for others also to follow suit.

I agree with BSSv, once you are already in the courts of law there is no point of thinking about the measures could be taken or should have been supposed to be taken, try to present the witnesses in the court producing or stating that enquiry was conducted resulting in giving them the warnings repeatedly, the company did not want to make it official through the document as the company also concerned about the employees future career prospects despite of their behaviour, but the recent instances forced the employees to leave the company and it was completely mutual and consent of the employees was taken and the resignation was received from them and produce the documents of leaving formalities.....

i think its good if u ve fired them. But you will to prove that they are really creating mess in the company.
and u should also prove that at time of appointment they were just opposite of what they are right now.
i think it will surely work.