S.B.MAJMUDAR, S.N.PHUKAN
Singareni Collieries Company LTD. – Appellant
Versus
Andclingaiah – Respondent
S.N.PHUKAN, J.
(1) HAVING heard the learned counsel for the parties we find that on the peculiar facts of this case Respondent 1 seems to have been tossed from pillar to post. Respondent 1 was working the relevant time in 1986 as badli filler mazdoor) with the appellant Company, which adimittedly is a Central Government company, though administered by the State authorities. Respondent 1 was charge-sheeted on 10/11/1986 for alleged misconduct and after domestic inquiry was dismissed from service on 13/5/1987. His appeal to the General Manager failed. Thereafter he directly approached the High Court of Andhra Pradesh in writ petition. He was permitted to withdraw the writ petition presumably because he could not move the High Court directly but had remedy under the Industrial Disputes Act, 1947 (for short "the Act"). Then he went to the State Labour Court at Hyderabad under Section 2-A sub-section (2) of the State amendment to the Act. The State Labour Court by an order dated 12/11/1992 dismissed the industrial dispute on the ground that it had no jurisdiction as the appropriate Government in this case was the Central Government. Respondent 1, once again went to
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