Supreme Court of India

The J. K. Cotton Spinning & Weaving Mills Co., Ltd. v. The State of Ultar Pradesh & Ors.

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Reported as [1961] 3 S.C.R. 185

Bench P.B. Gajendragadkar J.

Decided 12 December 1960

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What the Court ordered

We hold that the Labour Appellate Tribunal of India rightly held that the application under cl. 5(a) filed on June 13, 1950 was not maintainable and rightly set aside the awards of the Conciliation Board and the Industrial Court.

Judgment, page 11

From the headnote

Industrial Dispute-Proposed dismissal of workmen-Pending dispute-Permission not sought-Reference to adjudication-Vali dity of-U. P. Industrial Disputes Act, r947 (U. P. 28 of r947), ss. 3 and 8-Government Order dated March IO, r948, els. 5(a), 23. Under ss. 3 and 8 of the U. P. Industrial Disputes Act, r947 the Governor issued an Order dated March 10, 1948, making detailed provisions for the settlement of Industrial Disputes. Clause 5(a) of the Government Order empowered, among others, a recognised association of employers to refer an industrial dis pute for adjudication to the Conciliation

Authorities it was built on

1960 Ram Prasad Vishwakarma v. The Chairman, Industrial Tribunal cited by 2

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