JUDGMENT

KRISHNA IYEER. J. :—We are handling an extraordinary case-load of a hundred appeals by the Municipal Corporation of Delhi (the common appellant) against an award of the Industrial Tribunal, Delhi, granting 4 or 5 days wages to a hundred workers who had been employed on road-making and like jobs for several years, some going even back to 1958. The appellant is obviously a public sector corporation which is supposedly a model employer, the appellees are petty workers who have not been confirmed in the registers but are on the pay-roll as casual, though continuous workers; the break is for a few days and the financial burden cast by the award is around Rs. 5,000/-. And yet, the model employer has lavished on these hundred appeals to the SC of India on principle. Poor reflection on principles prompting public sector undertakings and on prudence in litigation policy and outlay and the scant regard for the SC being approached only on supreme issues. These observations are an expression of this courts allergy to the frequency with which, in the name of principle, the State and the public sector institutions spiral up the litigation ladder and spend considerable sums of public mon