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PETITIONER: MINERVA MILLS LTD.
Vs.
RESPONDENT: THEIR WORKERS
DATE OF JUDGMENT: 08/10/1953
BENCH: MAHAJAN, MEHR CHAND BENCH: MAHAJAN, MEHR CHAND MUKHERJEA, B.K. JAGANNADHADAS, B.
CITATION: 1953 AIR 505 1954 SCR 465 CITATOR INFO : E&D 1958 SC1018 (16,19)
ACT: Industrial Disputes Act, 1947, ss. 7, 8, 10-Tribunal constituted for fixed period-Constitution of new tribunal for hearing cases not fully disposed of by previous tribunal-Legality-Powers of State Government.
HEADNOTE: Under Section 7 of the Industrial Disputes Act, 1947, the appropriate Government has ample power to constitute an industrial tribunal for a fixed period of time and to constitute a new tribunal on the expiry of that period, to hear and dispose of all references made to the previous. tribunal which had not been disposed of by that tribunal.
JUDGMENT: APPELLATE JURISDICTION: Civil Appeals Nos. 140 to 143 and 156 and 157 of 1953. Appeals by special leave granted by the Supreme Court by its Order dated the 23rd April, 1953, from the decision dated the 19th December, 1952, of the Labour Appellate Tribunal of India, Third Bench, Madras, in Appeals Nos. Bom. 245/52, 246/52, 247/52 and 248/52. 466 C.K. Daphtary, Solicitor-General for India, (I. B. Dadachanji, with him) for the appellants in all the appeals. S.Mohan Kumaramangalam for the r...