JUDGMENT - S.M. DAUD, J.:---This petition under Article 226 of the Constitution impugns the second respondent's verdict upon a complaint under the Maharashtra Recognition of Trade Unions and Prevention of Unfair Labour Practices Act, 1971 (PULP Act).

2. The first respondent - hereinafter referred to as the 'employer' or 'Society' is a Government of India sponsored body to arrange for the more advantageous marketing of fabrics manufactured by handloom weavers scattered all over the country. It has established sales depots at various places and those in Bombay included the one located at the Dadabhai Nawroji Road. This depot was gutted in a fire that broke out on 16th October, 1982. The fire left the employer with a depot at Mahim in Bombay. The 155 employees working in the D.N. Road depot were without work. For some time there was a lay-off. Sixty two employees were transferred to depots outside Bombay. The Society converted an office at the Janmabhoomi Chambers into a sales depot and some of the laid-off employees were shifted thereto. The petitioner Union on 30-3-1985 applied to the Society to accord recognition to it as the sole representative of the employees claiming that it had

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