ORDER

The High Court of Punjab and Haryana allowed the writ petition of the respondent Managing Committee of the Army School, Jallandhar, upsetting the orders of the Authority under the Minimum Wages Act, 1948, on the premise that the appellants seeking relief were its ex-employees and not existing ones, and hence dis-entitled to move a petition under Section 20(2) of the Act for appropriate relief.

2. The employees voiced grievance before the Authority that the Army School had not paid them the minimum wages fixed by the State Government from time to time, as per details given in the application, and therefore they were entitled to reliefs enumerated under Section 20(2) of the above said Act. The said provision reads as under :

20(2) Where an employee has any claim of the nature referred to in sub-section (1), the employee himself,or any legal practitioner trade union authorised in writing to act on his behalf, or any Inspector, or any Inspector, or any person acting with the permission of the Authority appointed under sub-section (1), may apply to such Authority for a direction under sub-section (3) :

Provided that every such application shall be presented w