Per MALIK, CJ. and V. BHARGAVA, J. delivered by V. BHARGAVA, J. :- The petitioners in these petitions for issue of writs in the nature of certiorari. mandamus and prohibition are the Deoria Sugar Mills, Ltd., Deoria, and Shri Sita Ram Sugar Company, Ltd., Baitalpur, District Deoria.

2. The facts alleged on behalf of the petitioner in Writ Petition No. 184 of 1950 are that, under the orders of the Government of Uttar Pradesh, the petitioner-company was directed to pay out a fixed amount as bonus for the year 1947-48 in the year 1949 to the workers of the sugar factory, the definition of workers being as given in sub-rule 8 of rule 11 of the Rules framed under the U.P. Sugar Factories Control Act, 1938. Interpreting this order as including workers employed at the Head Office of the Company at Calcutta the petitioner-company made pro rata payments to the workers employed at Deoria as well as to those employed at the Head Office at Calcutta.

The Deoria Chini Mill Mazdoor Union, representing tae workmen employed in the company at Deoria, contended that no bonus was payable to the members of the staff at the Head Office at Calcutta and that the entire amount of bonus should have b