JUDGMENT

Rajendra Babu, J.-These are three matters, two of which are appeals arising out of orders made by two different High Courts and the third matter is a writ petition filed by the respondent (Shree Gajanan Maharaj Sansthan) in Civil Appeal No. 2727/1998 in this Court directly under Article 32 of the Constitution.

Civil Appeal No. 2727/1998

2. The respondent in this appeal registered as a charitable trust under the Bombay Public Trust Act filed a writ petition before the Bombay High Court, Nagpur Bench, contending that Section 2(j) of the Industrial Disputes Act, 1947 [hereinafter referred to as the Act ] provides for definition of the expression "industry"; that this Court interpreted the said expression in Bangalore Water Supply & Sewerage Board vs. A. Rajappa & Ors., 1978(2) SCC 213; that separate judgments were rendered by Beg, C.J., Chandrachud, C.J. And Bhagwati, Krishna Iyer and Desai, JJ. together, while Jaswant Singh and Tulzapurkar, JJ. partially dissented; that they explained the definition of the expression "industry" in the Act; that all of them are of the view that the matter should be clarified by the Legislature by a suitable amendment; that the said definition