S.P.BHARUCHA, J.

(1) LEAVE granted.

(2) THE notice that was issued to the respondent on the special leave petition was restricted to the compensation that was awarded.

(3) THE Authority under the Minimum Wages Act found that the appellant had not paid minimum wages to the five workmen named in its order. Accordingly, it awarded them wages in the aggregate sum of Rs.11,550. The order recorded that the appellant "has also tried to falsify the Inspector who is also an applicant. The respondent proves that the respondent is adamant to pay less wages against the provisions of the Act". The Authority found ulterior motives in the appellants conduct and directed it to pay 8 times the wages awarded as compensation to the said workmen.

(4) IN other words, a workman who had been awarded Rs. 2550 as wages was awarded Rs. 20,400 as compensation, and so on. The aggregate amount of the compensation awarded was Rs. 92,400.

(5) THE appellant moved the High Court of Punjab and Haryana. The writ petition was dismissed, no interference, in the view of the High Court, being called for.

(6) WE do not agree that no interference with the award