IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE, ANDHRA PRADESH AT HYDERABAD (Special Original Jurisdiction) TUESDAY, THE FIFTEENTH DAY OF APRIL TWO THOUSAND AND EIGHT PRESENT THE HON'BLE MR JUSTICE L.NARASIMHA REDDY WRIT PETITION NO : 26878 of 2007 Between: M.Ramakrishna, s/o.Sri Ramulu, R/o. 18-50, Gurumurthy Nagar, Opp ; IDPL Colony, Hyderabad - 500 037. ..... PETITIONER AND 1 The Presiding Officer, The Addl. Industrial Tribunal Cum, Addl. Labour Court, "Chandra Vihar" Nampally, Hyderabad. 2 M/s. Tecumsesh Products India Pvt. Ltd. Balanagar Towership, Hyderabad - 500 037. 3 Sri G. Sudarshan, S/o. not know, C/o.M/s. Techumseh Products India Pvt.Ltd. Balanagar Township, Hyderabad - 500 037. .....RESPONDENT(S) Petition under Article 226 of the constitution of India praying that in the circumstances stated in the Affidavit filed herein the High Court will be pleased to to issue writ, Order, or direction and more particularly, one in the nature of Writ of Mandamus, declaring that ; i) the inaction of the 1st respondent/the presiding Officer and not disposing ID Case No. 79 of 2006 filed on 1-2-2006 within 180 days as required under law, is illegal ii) the 1st respondent/the Officer inasmuch as not even posting the ID No. 79 of 2006 filed by the petitioner for leading his evidence till date, is illegal iii) the 1st respondent in hearing the 23 ID No. cases, from ID No. 67/06 89/06, filed by the petitioner herein and other similarly situated workmen, as a batch, is illegal iv) the1st respondent is not correct inasmuch as allowing the 2nd and 3rd respondents to cross examine each terminated workman/WW-1 for two days by strictly following the provisions of CPC, instead of dealing with the cases in summary manner, which is defeating the very purpose of creating the tribunals and v) consequently, direct the 1st respondent/the presiding Officer to hear the ID No. 79 of 2006 filed by the petitioner separately, and other 22 Cases, ID No. 67 of 2006 to 89 of 2006, filed by the petitioner and other similarly situated terminated workmen, as individual cases, and dispose each case separately, within the time limit prescribed under law by drawing a schedule every day vi) or pass orders Counsel for the Petitioner:MR.MOHAMMAD YOUSUFUDDIN Counsel for the Respondent No.: GP FOR LABOUR The Court made the following : THE HON’BLE MR JUSTICE L. NARASIMHA REDDY Writ Petition No.26878 of 2008 ORDER: The petitioner claims to have been employed by the 2nd respondent and retrenched from service. Aggrieved thereby, he approached the Additional Industrial Tribunal-cum-Additional Labour Court, Hyderabad, by raising an industrial dispute, under Section 2-A(2) of the Industrial Disputes Act, 1947. The same was taken up as I.D.No.79 of 2006. 23 persons, similarly situated as the petitioner, have also approached the Labour Court and the said cases were taken up as I.D.Nos.67 to 89 of 2006. The grievance of the petitioner is that though the facts in individual cases are different, and specific to each workman, the Labour Court had clubbed all the cases, and no substantial progress is recorded. Heard the learned counsel for the petitioner and learned counsel for the respondents. Subsequent to the filing of the writ petition, substantial progress has taken place, and as many as 14 witnesses were examined. Though the petitioner contends that the Labour Court did not evince much of interest, in expeditious disposal of the cases, it is urged on behalf of the 2nd respondent that the petitioner made himself available for cross- examination only on 19-02-2008. Be that as it may, the step taken by the Labour Court in clubbing all the identical cases cannot be found fault with. However, if the petitioner has anything specific in his case, it shall be open to him to put forward the same in whatever form he intends to. The writ petition is accordingly disposed of, directing the Labour Court to expedite the disposal of the I.D.No.79 of 2006. There shall be no order as to costs. _______________________ L. NARASIMHA REDDY, J. Dt.15-04-2008. KO* To 1.2CCs to 2.2CD copies Form-NIC-OGS/WP{RLD}