JUDGMENT - DESHPANDE A.P., J.: - Rule. Rule made returnable forthwith by consent of parties.

2. The present petition has been field in a representative capacity for and on behalf of the workers, working with the third respondent-Godavari Dudhana Sahakari Sakhar Karkhana, which has gone in liquidation. The order passed in this petition relates to all the employees, who were in the employment of the respondent No. 4 and who had initiated proceeding before Industrial Court, for claiming arrears of wages, by filing the complaint under section 28, sub-section (1) read with Item 9 of Schedule IV of the Maharashtra Recognition of Trade Unions and Prevention of Unfair Labour Practices Act, 1971.

Initially, on 18-9-2001, 243 workers filed a complaint under section 28, read with Item 9 of Schedule IV, of the Maharashtra Recognition of Trade Unions had Prevention of Unfair Labour Practices Act, 1971 (hereinafter referred to as M.R.T.U. P.U.L.P. Act, 1971) before the Industrial Court, making a demand as regard to their wages for about sixty months, which according to the employees, were to paid by the third respondent, as they were facing the financial crunch. Similar complaints, came to be f

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