P.B.GAJENDBAGADKAR, J.

(1) AN application made by the appellant, the central India Coalfields Ltd., under section 33(2)(b) of the Industrial Disputes Act, 1947, to the Labour court, Nagpur at Bombay, sitting at Calcutta, for approval of its decision to dismiss its employee, the respondent Ram Bilas Shobnath, has been dismissed by the said tribunal. That is why the appellant has come to this court by special leave to challenge the validity and the propriety of the said order.

(2) THE appellant is a limited company owning and managing a colliery at Chirimiri in Madhya Pradesh. There are staff quarters built by the appellant On its land for the residence of its employees and their families. The respondent had been employed by the appellant as a workman who performed his duties as an underground Munshi in the said colliery. A complaint was received against the respondent from several other workmen in the appellants colliery that the respondent was guilty of rowdy and indecent behaviour at nignt on 5/06/1957. He went to the quarters of his co-workmen drunk and in a state of heavy intoxication. First he knocked violently at the door of Sarkar Babu, then at th