( 1 ) IN this Writ petition 78 Class III employees of the Reserve Bank of India, Calcutta Branch and the Reserve Bank of India, Calcutta Branch and the Reserve Bank of India Staff Association, Calcutta, the Trade Union of which they belonged have prayed for a writ of mandamus directing the respondents to cancel and recall the concerned orders relating to th4 deduction of salaries of the petitioners for the months of April to July and upto 14the August 1982 including the Reserve Bank of India, Calcutta Circular No. 5 dated 13. 5. 1982 which is annexure 'f' to the petitioner and further directing them to repay the salaries which were deducted. The respondent Nos 1 to 6 are the Reserve Bank of India and its officers (the respondent No. 7 being the Union of India) who have filed return to the writ petition.

( 2 ) THE background to the dispute may be briefly stated.

( 3 ) ON the 16th June 1979 the Central Government referred the industrial dispute between the employers in relation to Reserve bank of India and their class III workmen in respect of matters including "work procedure and work norm" which is relevant for the present purpose, to a national industrial trib