JUDGMENT - D. V. VYAS, J. :

This is a petition under Arts. 226 and 227 of the Constitution of India, made by the New Jehangir Vakil Mills Ltd., Bhavnagar, and it arises out of an order made by the Industrial Tribunal, Rajkot, in-Miscellaneous "Application No. 196 of 1956. This petition raises an interesting question, and the question raised is the one of construing S. 33 of the Industrial Disputes Act, 1947. This question has arisen in this way. Miscellaneous Application No. 196 of 1956 was an application which was filed by certain three workers of the New Jahangir Vakil Mills Ltd.. Bhavnagar, under S. 33A of the Industrial Disputes Act, 1947. The three workers complained under S. 33-A of the Act that they were dismissed by notices served upon them on 17-4-1956, and the dismissal was ordered without the previous permission of the Industrial Tribunal, Rajkot. The complaint of the three workers was that at the date of their dismissal, certain disputes in which The New Jehangir Vakil Mills Ltd., and also its workmen were concern ed, were pending before the Tribunal and, therefore it was obligatory, under the Act, for the Mills to have sought the previous permission of the Tribunal bef

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