Judgment

S.B. Sinha, J.—Both the State of Karnataka and K.G.S.D. Canteen Employees Welfare Association are in appeal before us aggrieved by and dissatisfied with the judgments and orders dated 29.05.2002 and 30.05.2002 passed by a Division Bench of the Karnataka High Court in Writ Appeal Nos. 5690-5692 of 2000 and 4613-32 of 2000.

Writ Proceedings

2. The First Respondent herein is an Association of the employees of the Karnataka Government Secretariat Departmental Canteen. The Respondent Nos. 2 and 3 are its members. They filed a writ petition before the Karnataka High Court, inter alia, contending that the said canteen having been run by the State Government for the benefit of the secretariat employees and 74 employees working therein having completed more than 10 years of service were in effect and substance the employees of the State Government itself, although they were termed as ‘employees of the canteen’. Further contention of the respondents herein was that their wages were absolutely meagre being little more than the minimum wages, but despite several representations made by them, they were not paid the same salary as was payable to the employees of the State who were similarl