( 1 ) BY filing this petition, the petitioner-Union, has prayed for necessary direction against respondents 1 and 2 for carrying out the verification of the members of the Unions for the purpose of determining the membership of the concerned Unions. The petitioner has also prayed that the Chief Labour Commissioner (Central), respondent No. 6 herein, be directed to conduct fresh verification process through secret ballot for verifying the membership of the petitioner and respondent Nos. 3 to 5 Unions.

( 2 ) THE petitioner is a Trade Union registered under the provisions of the Trade Unions Act. As per the averments made in paragraph 1 of the petition, the members of the petitioner-Union are spread over the entire region, i. e. Ankleshwar, Vadodara, Khambhat, Ahmedabad and Mehsana and that the strength of the workers in Ahmedabad is 1500 and out of that, 1000 workers are the members of the petitioner-Union. It is also further averred in the said petition that in Ankleshwar, there are 1700 workers, out of which 1200 workers are members of the petitioner-Union. So far as Vadodara is concerned, there are 350 workers, out of which 100 workers are members of the petition