Supreme Court of India

The Punjab National Bank, Ltd. v. Its Workmen

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Reported as [1960] 1 S.C.R. 806
Bench Bhuvneshwar Prasad Sinha J.
Decided 24 September 1959

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What the Court ordered

In the result both the appeals pre­ ferred by the Bank fail and are dismissed with costs.

Judgment, page 49

From the headnote

Industrial Dispute-Dismissal by employer pending adjudication -Omission to hold proper enquiry or obtain permission of the Tribunal-Su.ch dismissal, if wholly void- Jurisdiction of Tribunal, Scope of-Pen-down strike-Legality-If disentitles a dismissed employee to reinstatem'ent-Ind·ustrial Disputes Act, I947 (I4 of I947), SS. 2(q), IO, 33, 33A. The employees of the appellant Bank commenced pen-down strikes, which were followed by a general strike, pending arbitra­ tion of an industrial dispute between them. The Government of India intervened and as the result of an agreement that followed the

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