ORDER :- This group of petitions arise out of proceedings pending before the Labour Court Allahabad, in respect of a claim of retrenchment compensation and bonus between the U.P. Electric Supply Co. Ltd. (hereinafter referred to as the petitioner company) and many of its workmen. They arc directed against an order passed on 11th September, 1965, by the Labour Court deciding some preliminary legal objections raised by the Company and the order dated 8-2-1966 whereby some other issues were decided.

2. The petitioner company carried on at Allahabad the business of generation and distribution of electricity under a licence granted in 1914. In view of the provisions in the licence the State Electricity Board, Uttar Pradesh took over the Company's undertaking and continued the work of generation and distribution of electricity with effect from 17th September, 1964. Since then the Company has ceased to have any business at Allahabad. Most of the petitioner company's officers and workmen Joined the employment offered to them by the U.P. Electricity Board at Allahabad. They filed petitions before the Labour Court at Allahabad under Section 6-H(2) of the U.P. Industrial Disputes Act claiming

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