Judgment

S. K. DAS, J. : This appeal by special leave from an award dated 10-10-1956, made by the Industrial. Tribunal, Bihar, raises an important question of interpretation in the matter of a disqualification for lay-off compensation under S. 25E read with S. 25C of the Industrial Disputes Act, 1947 (hereinafter called the Act), and so far as we know, this is the first case of its kind in which the expression "in another part of the establishment" occurring in cl. (iii) of S. 25E has come up for an authoritative interpretation.

2. The facts are simple and are shortly set out below. The Associated Cement Companies Ltd., hereinafter called the Company, have a number of cement factories in different States of the Indian Union as also in Pakistan. There are two such factories in the State of Bihar, one at Khelari and the other at a place called Jhinkpani in the district of Chaibasa in Bihar. The latter factory is commonly known as the Chaibasa Cement Works. There is a limestone quarry owned by the same Company situate about a mile and a half from the Chaibasa Cement Works, the quarry being known as the Rajanka limestone quarry. Limestone is the principal raw material for the manufacture