( 1 ) THIS is an application, alleging that the respondents have committed contempt of Court and that action should be taken against them.

( 2 ) IT appears that there was a dispute between the parties, which was the subject -matter of an Award of the Industrial Tribunal on a reference having been made under Sec. 10 of the Industrial Disputes Act. The said Award was challenged by the respondents by filing a writ petition in this Court, but without success. As the terms of the Award had not been complied with by the respondents, the petitioner herein filed an application for contempt. At the hearing of the same, an undertaking was given by the respondents that subject to the outcome of the Special Leave petition, which had been filed, the respondents shall comply with the terms of the award and the judgment of this Court, upholding the Award.

( 3 ) THE Special Leave Petition has been dismissed. According to the respondents, they have complied with the terms of the Award, in as much as the employees have been regularised with effect from the date of their initial appointment, to the regular scales and, further, full backwages had been paid.

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