Order

Leave granted in the S.L.Ps.

2. In this group of appeals, the common question which arises for our consideration is to the effect whether the appellant-All India Radio and Doordarshan, as the case may be, are ‘industries’ within the mean­ing of the said term as defined by Section 2(j) of the Industrial Disputes Act, 1947 (‘the Act’ for short).

3. The respondent-employees were either clerks or linemen/watchmen and other casual workers working at the relevant time as employees of either All India Radio or Doordarshan Kendras. In Civil Appeal No. 2423 of 1989 respondent No. 1 was Grade-II Clerk in Chattarpur Station of All India Radio. In Civil Appeal No. 2135 of 1993 respondent-workman was casual Fitter-cum-Watchman working at Doordarshan Kendra T.V. Relay Centre Dwarka, Gujarat, while the contesting respondents in civil appeals arising out of S.L.P. (C) Nos. 7722/7722A of 1993 were daily-rated workmen working at Doordarshan Kendra, Ranchi. They had challenged their orders of termination or non-regularisation before the authorities constituted under the Act. Their termination orders were set aside and regularisation was granted, as the case may be, to the concerned respondents wit