Judgment

SARKARIA, J.:- The appellant is the Gujarat State Co-operative Land Development Bank Ltd. (hereafter referred to as the Bank). It is a Society registered under the Bombay Co-operative Societies Act, 1925, as applicable to the erstwhile State of Saurashtra. According to the appellants writ petition, it is doing banking business. It has 127 branches spread all over the State of Gujarat. One of its branches is in Dasada, Surendranagar District. The Head Office of the Bank is at Ahmedabad.

2. The second respondent, Babu Bhai Negracha, was serving as an Additional Supervisor in the Dasada Branch of the Bank. His services were terminated by an order, dated February 21, 1962, by giving him one months pay in lieu of notice under Staff Regulation No. 15.

3. The Gujarat Co-operative Societies Act, 1961, came into force from May 1, 1962, and the appellant-Bank, being a Society under the Co-operative Societies Act, came to be governed by the said Act.

4. By Notification No. BIR-1362-5-H, dated March 2, 1963, published in the Gujarat Gazette in March 1963, the Government of Gujarat directed under Section 2 (4) of the Bombay Industrial Relations Act, 1946 (Bombay Act 11 of 1947) that all th