( 1 ) THE petitioner in this case presented an application under Section 15 (2) of the payment of Wages Act before the competent authority for an order against the respondents Nos. 3 to 5 for payment of retrenchment compensation for him. According to the petitioner he was in the service of the said respondents for nearly 30 years; that on 29th September, 1959, non-applicant No. 5 the Bombay Garage, jabalpur, intimated to him that his services were terminated from 30th september. 1939, and that his claim for payment of retrenchment compensation was not countenanced by the said opponents. The authority under the Payment of wages Act rejected the petition holding that there was a dispute whether the applicant was in the service of the aforesaid opponents and whether his services had been terminated; that it had no jurisdiction to determine this dispute; and that the petitioner's remedy was before the Industrial Court. The petitioner then preferred an appeal before the District Judge, Jabalpur, against the order of the authority. That appeal was rejected by the learned District Judge on the authority of the decision of this Court in P. L. Singh v. C. B. Kekre, AIR 1960 mad