This is a petition under Article 226 of the Constitution to call for the records in Claim Petition No. 227 of 1958 on the file of the Labour Court, Madurai, and to quash the order dated 19th November, 1958. The second respondent to this petition, Iswaran, was employed as a Traffic Supervisor in the Trichy-Srirangam Transport Co. (Private,) Limited, the petitioner. His services were terminated on 21st December, 1956, under a scheme of retrenchment. Subsequent thereto, there were disputes between the Management and the other workers in regard to the payment of bonus for the years 1955-56 and 1956-57. A settlement was reached before the Conciliation Officer on 29th April, 1958. In pursuance of such settlement, the Management declared an additional bonus of one month’s wages for each of the two years.

Iswaran was however not paid anything by way of bonus though he had worked during those years persumably because he was not in service on the date of the dispute which ended in the settlement referred to above. Feeling aggrieved, he applied to the Labour Court, Madurai, for an order under section 33 (c) (2) of the Industrial Disputes Act for ascertainment of the bonus due to him un