Wanchoo, C.J.—These are two connected applications under Art 226 of the Constitution of India. Application No, 25 is by Maharaja Shri Umaid Mills Ltd., Pali, and application No. 30 is by the Mewar Textile Mills Ltd., Bhilwara. As the points raised in the two applications are exactly the same, we propose to decide them by one judgment.

2. The case of the applicants is briefly this The Government of Rajasthan, in exercise of the powers conferred on it by sec. 7 of the Industrial Disputes Act, 1947, constituted an Industrial Tribunal of one member on the 2nd of June, 1953, and appointed Shri S. S. Mehta on it for adjudication of certain industrial disputes referred to the Tribunal. The notification in paragraph 2 fixed the date from which the Tribunal would start to function, and also fixed the term of the appointment of Shri Mehta. The appointment of Shri Mehta was notified to be for the financial year 1953-54. In pursuance of this notification, Shri Mehta started work as Industrial Tribunal for deciding the industrial disputes relating to the two applicants, and their workers. The disputes were not decided by the 31st of March, 1954. The applicants case further is that no notificatio

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