( 1 ) THE State Government has preferred these intra-Court appeals against the order passed by the learned Single Judge (BPL Group of companies Karmikara Sangha, Bangalore v State of Karnataka and others) directing the State Government to pass orders granting interim reliefs to the members of the respondent-Workers Union under Section 10-B of the Industrial Disputes Act, 1947 (in short the "act"), in terms of the recommendations made by the Labour Commissioner and initially approved by the Minister in charge of Labour Department, by ignoring the order of the Chief Minister, who, on review of the entire facts and consulting all concerned, opined that in the facts of the case, instead of granting interim relief by the Government, this point as well be referred to the Industrial Tribunal under Section 10 (1) (d) of the Act.

( 2 ) THE basic facts to be taken note of are quite short. The members of the respondent-workers union are employed in 12 corporate bodies, which for the sake of convenience are called "bpl Group of Companies". These workmen went on strike on 19-11-1998 in order to press their charter of demands. But since the management did not concede to their d