The present petitioner is a Workers' Union and represents the workmen of M/S. French Motor Car Company Limited, Dispur, Guwahati. The petitioner filed a petition before the learned Add­itional Deputy Commissioner, Kamrup, Guwahati, an authority appointed under the Payment of Wages Act, 1936, for short the Act, on behalf of 29 workmen claiming pay from 13.5.74 to 31.5.74 and also Variable D.A. for the year 1973 payable in 1974. The petition was allowed by the learned Additional Deputy Commissioner and an appeal as provided under the Act was filed before the learned District Judge, Guwahati who is an appellate authority under the Act. The appeal was allowed by the learned District Judge and hence the present application.

2. Being conscious of the legal position that power of this Re-visional Court is limited as this Court can only examine whether there was any jurisdictional error, Mr. Barua, learned counsel for the petitioner has urged only one point that the appellate judgment is liable to be quashed as it is perverse and .based op wrong int­erpretation of the law. Mr. Phukan, learned counsel for the respondent has submitted that there is no jurisdictional error, and judgment of the

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