S.N.Jha, J.

1. The dispute in this letters patent appeal arising from the judgment and order of the learned single Judge in C.W.J.C. No. 3133 of 1995(R) relates to abolition of contract labour in storage and handling work of scrap materials in the scrapyard of Telco Ltd., Jamshedpur, under the provisions of the Contract Labour (Regulation & Abolition) Act, 1970 (in short the Contract Labour Act) and regularisation of the services of the members of the respondent-Union as employees of Telco. The respondent-Union filed the aforesaid writ petition seeking implementation of the notification regarding abolition of contract labour in the aforesaid works under Sec. 10 of the Act. By the impugned judgment and order, the learned single Judge allowed the writ petition with certain consequential directions. The management has come in appeal.

2. Tata Engineering and Locomotive Company Limited (Telco), the appellant, is a company incorporated under the Companies Act engaged in the manufacture of automobiles, etc. having factory premises at Jamshedpur. In connection with its works, it employs a large number of workmen and also engages contractors for certain types of work who in turn eng