Judgement

RANGANATH MISRA, J.:- This is an application under Art. 32 of the Constitution and the petitioners are the Bharat Electronics Employees Union and the Secretary of that Union. Bharat Electronics Limited is a public sector undertaking. The company has its factory at Ghaziabad and manufactures electronic components and equipment including integrated circuits, TV picture tubes and sophisticated Radars used by the countrys defence establishments. The respondent No. 1 has entered into technical collaboration with a French firm, TCSF. Respondent No. 2 is the competent authority appointed under the Radiation Protection Rules, 1971 framed under the Atomic Energy Act by the Central Government. This writ application is confined to employees working in the transmitter assembly room of the factory. The petitioners have alleged that in course of their employment those of the employees who are made to work in the transmitter assembly room are exposed to the baneful effects of X-ray radiation. The ill effects of such exposure has been detailed in the writ petition. They have alleged that respondent No. 1 has not been following the rules and no care and attention has been devoted to the sa