Judgement

P. B. GAJENDRAGADKAR J.: This is an appeal by the Calcutta Electric Supply Corporation Ltd., (hereinafter called the appellant) by special leave against the award directing the appellant to provide medical treatment to the families of its employees subject to the limitation that no employee would be entitled to claim medical treatment which would cost more than one month s salary due to him. This award was passed in an industrial dispute between the appellant and its workmen and others (hereinafter called the respondents). The dispute related to 14 items and it was referred to the Industrial Tribunal by the Government of West Bengal on 24-5-1954. After the notification referring this dispute to the industrial tribunal was issued the said Government issued another notification on 7-8-1954, by which certain other items were added thus raising the total number of items in dispute to 22. One of these items was medical aid. It is under this item that the impugned part of the award has been passed. This part of the award was challenged by the appellant by preferring an appeal before the Labour Appellate Tribunal; but the plea raised by the appellant before the Labour Appellate T