IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA CWJC No.9399 of 2006 M/S BATA INDIA LIMITED Versus THE STATE OF BIHAR & ORS ----------- For the petitioner: M/s. V.N.Sahay & Arun Shrivastava, Advocates For the Respondents: M/s Alok kr.Sinha,Inderjeet Bhushan & Manish Kumar, Advocates ----------- 3 30.6.2009 After having heard learned counsel for the petitioner and learned counsel for the workmen, this Court is constrained to record that even though order dated 1.3.2006 passed in Reference Case No. 3 of 1996 came to be challenged by the petitioner in the present writ application no order of stay was ever prayed for or granted. During the pendency of the writ application it has emerged that the tribunal has passed the final order, deciding the matter on merits. In that view of the matter, there is no occasion now to go behind the award and looking into the matter whether enquiry was conducted in an appropriate manner, as has been urged on behalf of the management. Even otherwise the order impugned in the present writ application would be deemed to have merged in the final order which is any way subject matter of challenge in another writ application i. e. CWJC No.11894 of 2007. The present writ application has lost its meaning and it is dismissed accordingly. (Ajay Kumar Tripathi, J) RPS.