1 IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT BOMBAY APPELLATE SIDE WRIT PETITION NO.1828 OF 2008 Mahesh Ramchandra Bakre. ...Petitioner. Vs. The Chairman & Managing Director, Rashtriya Chemicals & Fertilizers & Anr....Respondents. .... Mr.Neel G. Helekar for the Petitioner. Mr. P.M. Patel with Mr. Ajay Kher i/b. M.S. Bodhanwala & Co. for the Respondents. ..... CORAM :DR.D.Y.CHANDRACHUD, J. April 28, 2008. P.C.: The Labour Court had, by its order dated 6th April 1992, come to the conclusion that the Complaint of unfair labour practices instituted by the Petitioner was maintainable under the Maharashtra Recognition of Trade Unions and Prevention of Unfair Labour Practices Act, 1971. The Industrial Court, in a Revision filed in 1994, came to the conclusion, by its impugned order dated 18th November 2005, that the Labour Court has no jurisdiction to entertain the complaint since the “appropriate Government” in the case of 2 Rashtriya Chemicals and Fertilizers Ltd., is the Central Government and not the State Government. At the hearing of the petition, it is agreed, on all sides, that the issue stands covered by a judgment of this Court in Rashtriya Chemicals and Fertilizers Ltd. vs. RCF Employees' Union, 2006 III CLR 859, in which this Court accepted the contention of the Company that the appropriate Government for RCF is not the Central Government, but the State Government. In that view of the matter, the order of the Industrial Court allowing the revision will have to be quashed and set aside and is accordingly quashed and set aside. The Labour Court shall now proceed to hear and dispose of the Complaint of unfair labour practices on merits. It has been stated before the Court that no application for the grant of interim relief shall be moved with a view to ensure an expeditious disposal of the complaint. The second direction, namely, the direction in regard to the deposit of salary in para 15(ii) of the order of the Labour Court is accordingly not pressed and shall stand quashed and set aside. The Labour Court shall endeavour to dispose of the complaint within a 3 period of four months from the date on which a certified copy of this order is placed on the file. The petition is accordingly disposed of. ......