S. K. Kapur, J.

1. The management of the Bar Association Canteen has filed this writ petition impugning the decision of the additional Industrial tribunal, Delhi, dated 19 May 1965, on the following two preliminary issues:

(1) Whether the canteen is an "industry" within the meaning of Sec.2 (J) of the Industrial Disputes Act? (2) Whether the sponsoring union has any locus standi to raise the dispute?

2. It is alleged in the writ petition that the District Courts Bar Association, Delhi, has a membership of over 1,300 persons, who are practising as lawyers within the jurisdiction of the District Courts at Delhi, that it was felt by the said bar association that some arrangement for provision of beverages, snacks and food to the members should be made and a resolution was passed in 1952 for setting up a canteen for providing Bracks and beverages during lunch hours to the members of the association. A small portion in the verandah was allotted for this purpose to the bar association in the Hindu College building at Delhi where the canteen was started on "noprofit no-loss" basis for the exclusive use by the members of the District Bar Association that as a result of certain repr