Supreme Court of India

Samarjit Ghosh v. Bennett Coleman & Company and Another

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Reported as [1987] 3 S.C.R. 475
Decided 29 June 1987

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What the Court ordered

We hold that the application was rightly made before the Government of West H •• 480 SUPREME COURT REPORTS [1987] 3.S.C.R. A Bengal, the further conclusion must necessarily follow that it was the Government of West Bengal which possessed the power to refer the question for adjudication.

Judgment, page 5

From the headnote

Labour Law: Working Journalists and Other Newspaper Employees' (Conditions of Service) and Miscellaneous Provisions Act. 1955: Sub-ss. ( 1) and (2) of s. 17 read with r. 36 of the Rules framed thereunder-Dispute with regard to unpaid dues between an employee and his employer-company which has offices at places falling in diffe- rent States-The State Government competent to make a reference to the Labour Court under sub-s. (2) of s. 17. The appellant, a working journalist who was appointed on /November, 1961 as a Staff Correspondent in the Calcutta Office of the respondent-company while

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