P. Sathasivam, J.

The appeal is directed against the order of the learned single Judge rejecting the petition under Sec. 17-B of the Industrial Disputes Act. The first respondent herein, management has preferred Writ Petition No. 16125 of 1994 challenging the order passed by the Industrial Tribunal dismissing their approval petition filed under S. 33(2)(b) of the Industrial Disputes Act (hereinafter referred to as "the Act"). The said writ petition was admitted on 18.10.1994 and interim stay was granted and the appellant/workman filed a petition to vacate the stay and also another petition under Sec. 17-B of the Act. After hearing both parties and after ascertaining the back wages which comes to Rs. 2, 40, 000, the learned Judge made the stay absolute subject to the condition that the writ petitioner deposits a sum of Rs. 2, 04, 000 within eight weeks from the date of his order. In the very same order, the learned Judge has directed, on such deposit being made, to invest the said amount in a nationalised bank and also to pay monthly interest accrued thereon to the workman/appellant herein.

In this appeal, we are concerned with the rejection of his application filed under