JUDGMENT :

Anil K. Narendran, J.

1. The petitioner is a company engaged in the business of producing natural rubber latex, which owns rubber plantation as well as factory for processing natural rubber latex at Mukkam in Kozhikode District. The petitioner company, which is engaging around 400 permanent employees and 175 casual workers, has filed this writ petition under Article 226 of the Constitution of India, seeking a writ of mandamus commanding respondents 1 and 2 to afford and render necessary Police protection against the illegal obstructions caused by respondents 3 to 8 trade unions and their men, from operating and maintaining the plantation, factories and business of the company and from causing any hindrance to the procurement and transportation of raw materials and dispatching the processed goods and other ancillary and incidental activities connected thereto and further directing respondents 1 and 2 to take all legal steps necessary to ensure the routine business activities in the business premises of the company, by engaging workers who are willing to work and to do whatever is required to maintain law and order in the business premises, for protecting the properties and