JUDGMENT - M.F. SALDANHA, J.:---We purpose to dispose of this group of four appeals through a common judgment for the reason that the point of law that falls for determination in all the four cases is a common one. The brief facts giving rise to these appeals may be summarized as follows.

2. The four appellants before us at the relevant time, i.e., in the year 1979-80, were employees of Air India and were stationed at Calcutta. Pursuant to certain incidents that are alleged to have taken place in the month of October 1980, the Corporation instituted disciplinary proceedings against these employees and on the culmination of those proceedings, it was decided to award certain punishments to the four employees. We are not immediately concerned with the greater part of those proceedings because it is common ground that the Corporation applied to the National Industrial Tribunal, Bombay, by way of four approval applications under section 33(2)(b) of the Industrial Disputes Act, 1947 (hereinafter referred to as"the said Act") to grant approval for the proposed disciplinary action. One of the requirements of that section is that the employees in question must be paid the equivalent of one

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