1 IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT BOMBAY APPELLATE SIDE WRIT PETITION NO.4484 OF 2008 Suryakant Pundlik Patil. ...Petitioner. Vs. The Chief Security & Vigilance Officer, MSRTC & Anr. ...Respondents. .... Mr. M.S. Karnik for the Petitioner. Mr. G.S. Hedge for the Respondents. ..... CORAM :DR.D.Y.CHANDRACHUD, J. June 25, 2008. P.C.: The Industrial Court has declined to stay the operation of the transfer order by which the Petitioner has been transferred from Nasik to Sindhudurg. The Industrial Court has, prima facie, observed that the Petitioner is not a workman. The observations in the order of the Industrial Court are confined to the disposal of the application for interim relief. The Industrial Court shall determine the issue as to whether the Petitioner is a workman under Section 2(s) of the 2 Industrial Disputes Act, 1947 after furnishing to the parties an opportunity to lead evidence. Should the Petitioner be so advised, it would be open to him to move an application for deciding the issue as a preliminary issue. All the observations contained in the impugned order are confined to the disposal of the application for interim relief which will not come in the way of final determination being arrived at by the Industrial Court after the evidence is adduced. No interference is warranted. However, the Industrial Court is requested to set down a time schedule for the expeditious disposal of the case, preferably by the end of 2008. Subject to the aforesaid, the petition is disposed of. ....