JUDGMENT - Abhyankar, J.

1. This petition under Article 227 of the Constitution challenges the order of the Authority constituted under the Minimum Wages Act holding that it has no jurisdiction to hear and decide the application made by certain persons claiming to be the employees of the respondent No. 1, who is a Bidi Manufacturer.

2. Several applications were filed before the authority appointed under the Minimum Wages Act, 1948, at Gondia, claiming certain amounts from respondent No. 1. At page 13 of the paper book is one specimen of such application. In their application the claimants averred that they have been employees in the establishment of respondent No. 1, that is, P. K. Porwal, Bidi manufacturer, as bidi rollers. To their application they impleaded one Zibal Tukaram Meshram as opponent No. 2, This Zibal is the second respondent in this petition. They stated that Zibal, the respondent No. 2, is a person who supervises the work of the establishment of bidi manufacturer. They claimed that the opposite party had rejected out of the bidis rolled by them to the extent of 250 to 300 bidis per thousand, for which no wages were paid, during the period for which the claim was made,

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