Dilip B. Bhosale, ACJ.

1. These writ appeals, under Clause 15 of the Letter Patent, are directed against the order dated 28.11.2013 disposing of a batch of writ petitions whereby the question “whether the works executed by the petitioners in the 3rd respondent-factory (in W.P.No.9111 of 2010) are the works incidental to and/or connected with the works of the 3rd respondent-factory and thus exempted from the provisions of The Building and Other Construction Workers’ (Regulation of Employment and Conditions of Service) Act, 1996 (27 of 1996) (for short “Act No.27”)” has been answered in the affirmative.

2. All writ appeals are preferred either by the Commissioner of Labour or Joint Commissioner of Labour, who were respondent No.1 or 2 in the writ petitions (for short “the Commissioner”). The writ petitions were filed by Infrastructural Development Companies/Contractors (for short “the contractors”) who were given contracts for erection or raising structures/constructions such as blast furnace within the campus of respondents-companies/corporations (for short “the Companies”).

3. The writ petitions were filed by the contractors basically challenging orders of the Commissioner, ch