JUDGMENT :

1. This Writ Petition is filed by Petitioners on behalf of the State of Maharashtra under Article 227 of the Constitution of India taking exception to the common impugned Judgment & Order dated 06.03.2002 passed by Industrial Court, Nasik allowing 5 separate ULP Complaints filed by Respondent – Nasik Zilla Van Shramik Sangh on behalf of workers and 6 individual Complaints filed by 6 workers, disposing them all by the common Judgment / Order. By the impugned Judgment & Order, inter alia, the Industrial Court allowed all Complaints and directed Petitioners to extend the benefit of status of permanency and to maintain seniority list of the employees employed in forests under Nashik Van Vibhag, Nashik. Rule was issued on 29.09.2003.

2. Briefly stated, original Complainant i.e. Respondent Union (Sangh) filed 5 Complaints being (ULP) Nos. 320/1997, 636/1998, 63/1999, 30/1999 and 34/2000 in a representative capacity on behalf of various workers / labourers engaged in the Forest Department in Nasik Division before the Industrial Court under the provisions of Section 28 read with items 6, 9 and 10 of Schedule IV of the MRTU & PULP Act, 1971 seeking declaration against Petitioners t