JUDGMENT

[Court hearing convened via video-conferencing on account of COVID-19]

Rajiv Shakdher, J.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Preface:

1. Shorn of unnecessary details, the grievance which has impelled the petitioners to approach this Court is briefly this:

1.1. The petitioners, who are regular employees of respondent no.2 i.e., the Food Corporation of India [hereafter referred to as "FCI"] apprehend being transferred en bloc from FCI Food Storage Depots [in short "FSDs"] located at Shakti Nagar and Mayapuri to depots located at Okhla and other locations.

1.2. It is the petitioners' case that both depots i.e., FCI FSDs located at Shakti Nagar and Mayapuri, where they are presently located, have notifications issued qua them, under Section 10 of the Contract Labour (Regulation &Abolition) Act, 1970 [in short "CLRA Act"]. Thus, according to the petitioners, once the notification under Section 10 of the CLRA Act was issued, the FCI could not have deployed contract labour in the aforementioned depots [i.e., FSD Shakti Nagar and FSD Mayapuri], and therefore, in purs