1 IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT BOMBAY CIVIL APPELLATE JURISDICTION WRIT PETITION NO.9243 OF 2009 Bank Employees Union, Kolhapur. ..Petitioner. Vs. Assistant Registrar, Pune and anr. ..Respondent. Ms. Jane Cox for the Petitioner. Mr.M.S.Toprani for the Respondent. CORAM :R.S.MOHITE, J. DATE : 10TH NOVEMBER,2009 PC: 1 This is a writ petition filed by the petitioner impugning an order below Exh.U-2 passed on 17.3.2009 by the Industrial Court, Sangli. It appears that the respondent No.2 has filed an application for registration of the union read with Section-16 of the Bombay Industrial Relations Act read with Rule 14A of the Bombay Industrial Rules, 1947. In the said application, Registrar has called upon both the parties to produce the documents 2 which are required to be produced under Rule 28A. The petitioner union has raised an objection that General Secretary of the respondent No.2 is Director in the Co-operative Bank and inspection of their minutes book and other documents of the said union, more particularly, Minutes book will be against the interest of union. They also filed their written statement raising the issue pertaining to maintainability of the application. Finally, an application was filed requesting the Registrar that maintainability of the application be decided as preliminary issued. By the impugned order, court has rejected the prayer for framing preliminary issue. In my view, no fault can be found with the impugned order. The Apex Court has held that it will not be proper to spilt up the matter which will result in delay in the adjudication of the main matter. However, taking into account the point raised by the present petitioner, Registrar of the BIR is directed that upon production of Minutes book, he will scrutinize 3 the same and grant inspection only of such minutes which are germane for deciding the main application. With this clarification, writ petition is disposed off. (R.S.MOHITE, J.)