JUDGMENT

(Common Prayer: Writ Petition filed under Article 226 of the Constitution of India, praying to issue a Writ of Certiorarified Mandamus, to call for the records connected in common award passed by the Principal Labour Court, Chennai, in I.D.Nos. 20 to 24 and 27 to 41 of 2007 dated 27.05.2009 and quash the same insofar as the petitioners are concerned and directing the Respondents 1 & 2 to reinstate the petitioners in service with all benefits and pass such further orders as this Hon'ble Court may deem fit.)

Common Order

1. These batch of writ petitions arise out of a common order passed by the Industrial Labour Court rejecting the petitioners' claim that their retrenchments were in violation of Section 25 F of the 'Industrial Disputes Act, 1947' ( for the sake of brevity 'I.D.Act, 1947'), on the premise that the petitioners herein were not terminated by the Respondent/Corporation instead the petitioners left the services on their own volition which would not amount to “retrenchment” within the meaning of Section 2(oo) of the I.D. Act, 1947, and consequently provisions of Section