JUDGMENT :

The unsuccessful petitioner employer in the instant Writ Petition (Civil) WP(C) No. 7103/2019 has instituted the afore captioned intra court appeal under Section 5(i) of the Kerala High Court Act, 1958, to impugn the judgment dated 9.12.2020 rendered by the learned Single Judge of this Court, dismissing the above Writ Petition (Civil).

2. Heard Sri.A.V.Xavier, learned counsel appearing for the appellant/writ petitioner, Sri.Paulson C.Varghese, learned counsel appearing for R-2 to R-18 in this appeal and Sri.Asok M.Cherian, learned Senior Amicus Curiae ably assisted and instructed by Sri.Ashok B.Shenoy, learned Amicus Curiae. Since R-1 in this appeal is the Labour Court, notice to that respondent will stand dispensed with.

3. The case projected in the above writ proceedings is broadly as follows: That, contesting respondents 3 to 18 in the WP(C)/WA are workmen of the appellant/writ petitioner Lisie Hospital and R-2 claims to be the registered trade union of employees of said hospital. That, from the beginning of the year 2000, the contesting respondents herein had organized a strike resulting in alleged misconduct inside the hospital and in front of the Director's chamber, w