1 IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT BOMBAY CIVIL APPELLATE JURISDICTION WRIT PETITION NO. 9885 OF 2009 Krantikari Kamgar Union. ....Petitioner V/s. M/s. Unique Mixers & Furnaces Pvt.Ltd. ....Respondent Ms. Jane Cox for the Petitioner. Mr. P.N. Anaohar with Mr. Rahul D. Oak for the Respondent. CORAM : S.J. VAZIFDAR, J. DATE : 11TH JANUARY, 2010. P.C. :- 1. Rule. By consent, rule made returnable forthwith and heard finally. 2. The Petitioner has challenged the order of the Industrial Tribunal, granting only partly their application for production of certain documents and rejecting the application in respect of other documents. 2 3. According to the Petitioners, the Respondent is part of a group of companies and firms and that the funds of the Respondent have been siphoned off within the group, which would be to the detriment of the Petitioners. If, indeed, the allegations are true, it would affect the Petitioner’s claim including for wage adjudication. However, the present application for production could not have been granted for the reason that the other entities alleged to be part of a group were not impleaded in the application. Whether they could have been impleaded or not is another question altogether. In other words, orders cannot be passed against third parties without notice being issued to such parties. 4. It is not necessary for me in this petition to examine the question as to whether there is any functional integrality between the Respondent and the other members of the group. However, even assuming that there is no functional integrality between the Petitioners and the other entities of the alleged group, it is always possible for the Petitioner, if proper grounds are made out, to summon the records pertaining to the other members of the said group. This, however, must be done in proceedings such as by issuing a summons to such entities. 5. It is, therefore, clarified that the dismissal of the Petitioners’ application for production will not prevent the Petitioners from 3 summoning the same and other documents from any other third parties, including the members of the alleged group of the Respondent by any other appropriate procedure including summons/witness summons. 6. The Writ Petition is, accordingly, disposed of.