Rajagopalan, J.—The petitioner, representing the Management of a Match Factory at Madras applied under Article 226 of the Constitution for the issue of a writ of certiorari to set aside the Award of the Industrial Tribunal, Madras, dated 25th July, 1957, in I.D. No. 9 of 1957. In view of the peculiar feature of this application that it was filed after the petitioner had failed to obtain leave of the Supreme Court to prefer an appeal under Article 136 of the Constitution against the Award in I.D. No. 9 of 1957 the application came up before a Division Bench even at the initial stage, when a rule nisi was ordered to issue.

Over 1,600 workmen were employed in the petitioner’s factory. In addition to the basic wages each of the workmen was given (1) dearness allowance calculated at two annas in the rupee on the basic wages ; (2) a grain allowance of Re. 1-9-0 in cash ; and (3) a store purchase quota. The last enabled a workman to purchase at the stores the factory maintained essential and other commodities at pre-war prices upto the limit of the quota allotted to him. The minimum quota allotted to each of the workmen was Rs.13. 1,460 of the workmen received this minimum quota. The quota

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