ORDER :- These two writ petitions are under Article 226 of the Constitution. The facts of both are common and they raise identical questions Same persons have filed both these petitions. The first respondent in both of them is the State of Uttar Pradesh. In Writ Petition No. 2909 of 1962 Shankar Sugar Mills Ltd., Deoria, is the second respondent while in Writ Petition No. 2910 of 1962 the Punjab Sugar Mills Co. Ltd., Gorakhpur is the second respondent. These petitions pray that the notification dated 1-5-1962 of the State Government be quashed and that the State Government be directed to refer the industrial dispute for adjudication.

2. The impugned notification dated 1-5-62 purports to have been passed by the State Government in exercise of the powers conferred by section 3 of the U. P. Industrial Disputes Act, 1947 (U. P. Act No. XXVIII of 1947). It directs 69 named vacuum pan sugar factories to pay to their employees amounts, by way of bonus for the crushing season 1960-61, shown against their names, within one month of the publication of the order. The Punjab Sugar Mills Co., Ltd., Gorakhpur is mentioned at serial No. 63 of the order and the amount of bonus to be paid by it is s

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