ORDER (Per Ghulam Mohammed, J.)

The writ petitions are listed before us by way of reference by a learned single Judge of this Court to answer the following questions:

"1. Whether the Court, within whose territorial jurisdiction, the Head Office of a company is situated, will also have territorial jurisdiction to entertain the 1.0., apart from the Court where cause of action has arisen, irrespective of whether any part of cause of action had arisen within the jurisdiction of the Court where the Head Office is located?

2. Whether the provisions of Section 20 C.P.C. are applicable to the IDs filed under the Industrial Disputes Act, 1947?

3. Whether the Court within whose jurisdiction the Branch Office of a company is located and where the cause of action has arisen, has to be taken as the relevant place for the purpose of raising an Industrial Dispute under the provisions of Industrial Disputes Act, 1947?"

2. The above questions are said to have arisen in view of the two conflicting decisions of this Court in Siemens Limited v. Presiding Officer, Labour Court' and Novapan Industries Limited v. S.Krishna Murthy. It is relevant to notice the views expressed in the said judgments. In Siemens

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