P. S. Kailasam, C.J.

This petition is filed by the management of the Safire Theatre against the Additional Commissioner for Workmen's Compensation and nine workmen for the issue of a write of certiorari to quash the order of the Additional Commissioner for Workmen's Compensation In T.S.E. Appeal Nos. 75 to 88 of 1973.

2. Respondents Nos. 2 to 10 in the petition were employed in the sank bar and maintenance section of the Safire Theatre. The management decided to close down the snack bar and the maintenance section, and in pursuance of that decision, fourteen workers, including respondents Nos. 22 to 10, were retrenched with effect from 10th October, 1972. The required formalities in effecting retrenched under the Industrial Disputes Act were complied with, but the worker refused to receive the notice pay and composition, etc., offered at the time of retrenched. In October-November, 1972, the union raised an industrial dispute before the labour officer challenging the retrenched as illegal and unjustified when the dispute was pending before the Labour Department, the workers filed separator appeals before the Additional Commissioner for Workmen's Compensation under the Tam