1 wp-6224-09 mgn IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT BOMBAY APPELLATE SIDE, CIVIL JURISDICTION WRIT PETITION NO.6224 OF 2009 Thane Labour Law Practioners’ Association & Ors. ..Petitioners Vs. The Registrar General, High Court of Judicature at Bombay & Ors. ...Respondents Mr. V.P.Patil for the Petitioner. Mrs.M.P.Thakur, AGP for respondent Nos. 2(a) and 3. Mr. Nitin Jamdar, for respondent No.1 and 2(b). CORAM: B. H. MARLAPALLE & U.D.SALVI, JJ. DATE: 28th October, 2010. P.C. As per Mr. Jamdar as of now two Industrial Courts and three Labour Courts are functional at Thane and the Presiding Officer, IInd Labour Court i.e. Mr. A.N.Vaidya is under suspension with effect from 23rd December, 2008. 2 wp-6224-09 2. The affidavit in reply filed by the Registrar (Legal) on behalf of the High Court states that as per the resolution passed in the Chief Justices’ Conference in April, 2007 the ratio adopted for assigning the matters to the Judicial Officers is one Judge for 2000 cases and keeping that in mind the present strength of the Industrial Courts and Labour Courts at Thane is adequate. 3. Though Mr. Patil, the learned Counsel for the petitioner Association submitted that the Judge/case ratio should be as suggested by the Kantharia Committee Report looking at the present pendency of cases before the Industrial Court and Labour Court at Thane, he did not claim that the present strength is inadequate having regard to the institution and pendency of cases. He also pointed out that the Labour Law Practitioners Association had filed a Writ Petition for similar prayers and the same has also been disposed off. Hence, for the time being the posting of the Presiding Officers i.e. two Members for the Industrial Court and three Judges for the Labour Court at Thane are adequate and nothing further survives in this petition. Hence the Petition is disposed off. ( U.D.SALVI, J.) (B. H. MARLAPALLE, J.)