( 1 ) THIS appeal is taken up for hearing by treating it as included in the day's cause list.

( 2 ) THE appellants herein were the original writ petitioners and the respondents herein were the respondents in the writ petition out of which the present appeal arises. The relief claimed in the said writ petition, inter alia, was to direct the respondents to give effect forthwith to the order dated September 8, 1987 and the circular dated September 17, 1987 (annexures "a" and "b", to the writ petition) and to extend the benefit of enhanced interim relief to the concerned employees of the second respondent-company, in terms of the said order and the said circular. The writ petition was dismissed by the learned single judge holding that in view of the decision of the Supreme Court in State of Rajasthan v. Swaika Properties, this court had no territorial jurisdiction to entertain the writ petition. Hence, the present appeal.

( 3 ) THE order (annexure "a") issued by the Government of India, Ministry of Industry (Bureau of Public Enterprises), states, inter alia, that the Government had decided to authorise the management of public sector enterprises of industrial D. A. to s