( 1 ) THE Food Corporation of India Loading and Unloading Workers Union (in short the Union) representing the workmen employed by Respondent-2, Labour Contractor of Respondent-1/food corporation of India, has filed this petition for a declaration that the action of the Food corporation of India (in short the Corporation) in retrenching 450 workmen who have been working continuously and rendering services to the Corporation for several years in its various godowns and Railheads in Bangalore District as illegal, irregular, arbitrary and discriminatory being opposed to the provisions of the Industrial Disputes Act and Article 14 of the Constitution and for a Writ in the nature of Mandamus directing the Corporation not to retrench the aforesaid workers without complying with the mandatory provisions of Section 25 (N) and (F) of the industrial Disputes Act (in short the. D. Act) and for other incidental reliefs.

( 2 ) WHEN this petition came up for preliminary hearing I made an interim order on 13-3-1986 directing the 3rd respondent, Labour Contractor, to provide work for the workmen on the same terms and conditions on which they were employed as on 28-2-1986,. e. . when t