Supreme Court of India

Oil and Natural Gas Corporation Ltd. v. The President, Oil Field Employees Association & Ors.

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Reported as [2022] 19 S.C.R. 376
Bench L. Nageswara Rao J.
Decided 4 February 2022

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We are of the opinion that such finding is not tainted by any element of perversity.

Judgment, page 23

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Industrial Disputes Act, 1947: If irregularity or i llegality committed by a Tribunal touches upon the jurisdiction to try and determine over a subject dispute is altogether beyond its purview, that question would go to the root of the matter an d it would be within the jurisdiction of the superior court to correct s uch error – In the facts of the present case, it is not the ques tion of inherent lack of jurisdiction on the part of the Tribunal – Th e question of jurisdiction, as held by the High Court, was a mixe d question of fact and law – In the instant case, the settlement of 1 9th

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