1 IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT BOMBAY CIVIL APPELLATE JURISDICTION WRIT PETITION NO.4184 OF 2009 Bank Karmachari Sangh. ..Petitioner. Vs. Pune District Central Co-op.Bank Ltd. and others. ..Respondents. Mr.A.S.Rao for the Petitioner. Mr.A.K.Gupte i/by A.H.Fatangare for the Respondent No.1. CORAM :R.S.MOHITE, J. DATE : 24TH NOVEMBER,2009 PC: 1 This is a petition filed by the union impugning common order below Exhibit Nos.C-8 and C-10 delivered by the Industrial Court, Pune on 31.3.2009. By the impugned order, the Industrial Court has allowed the application made by the respondent bank for certain increase in the wages and granting benefit of LTC and Surrender leave as specified in the said application. Admittedly, the reference is still pending. Grant of concessions or increase in wages cannot be against the interest of 2 the petitioner union and its members. It is in the nature of an interim equitable arrangement. It is seen that this was also the view taken by this court in an earlier application made by the bank when the said application came up for consideration before this court in W. P. No. 5518/2006. In the circumstances, petition is disposed off with the clarification that increase in wages and grant of concession as has been permitted will be without prejudice to the rights and contentions of the parties to the reference and that the original reference will be disposed off on its own merits, without being influenced by this equitable arrangement. (R.S.MOHITE, J.)