Judgment

CHINNAPPA REDDY, J.:- The facts of the four appeals before us (except the cases of Usha Kumari and Madhu Bala, two out of the seven appellants in Civil Appeal No. 633 of 1980) are almost identical with the facts in Santosh Gupta v. State Bank of Patiala, (1980) 2 Lab LJ 72 decided by this Court on April 29, 1980, Not unnaturally the appellants claim that they should be given the same reliefs as were given to the workmen in that case, but which have been denied to them by the Labour Court in the instant cases. The Labour Court found, as a fact, that except in the cases of three workmen, S. C. Goyal, Usha Kumari and Madhu Bala, the termination of the services of the remaining appellants-workmen was in violation of the provisions of S. 25F of the Industrial Disputes Act, 1947 and therefore invalid and inoperative. But, as the termination of their services was a consequence of their failure to pass the tests prescribed for permanent absorption into the service of the Bank and as it was thought their reinstatement would have the effect of equating them with workmen who had qualified for permanent absorption by passing the test, the Labour Court refuse to give the workmen the rel