JUDGMENT :

1. In this writ petition, the validity of the order passed by the Industrial Tribunal (Central), Hyderabad, holding that the dismissal of the workman is not justified is challenged.

2. Komaraiah and Hanumantha Rao were working as Coal Cutter and Timberman respectively in M/s. Singareni Collieries, Kalyanikhani. According to the Management they were guilty of several lapses. They were served with a charge-sheet on June 27, 1983 containing the following charges :

(a) that one June 7, 1983 they have participated in a strike and made picketing in front of Additional C.M.E. confining him in his Office and they along with other workmen abused the C.M.E. in filthy language;

(b) that they raised slogans and abuses and gheraoed the Officer along with others;

(c) that they led a procession with the effigy of the Manager and attempted to burn the same and they have broken the gate with an intention to do physical harm;

(d) that on June 23, 1983 they stopped all the workmen from going to the work and indulged in a strike; and that these acts constitute violation of sub-section 1(a) of Section 22 of the Industrial Disputes Act and that it amounts to serious misconduct under the Standing O