( 1 ) BY this application under Articles 226 and 227 of the Constitution, the petitioner seeks a writ of certiorari for quashing a determination of the Presiding Officer of the Labour Court, Jabalpur, holding that the references of two disputes made to the Labour Court by the State Government under Section 10 (1) of the Industrial disputes Act 1947, are illegal and without jurisdiction.

( 2 ) THE matter arises thus. Two persons, Ramdas and Abdul Latif, were in the employment of the non-applicant No. 1, the Amar Kamgar Passenger Transport company Co-operative Society, Sagar, registered as a Co-operative Society under the M. P. Co-operative Societies Act, 1960, (hereinafter called the Act ). The services of these two employees were terminated by the respondent-Society. The two employees and the petitioner, a union of employees engaged in motor transport industry at Sagar, feeling aggrieved by the action of the respondent-Society in terminating the services of Ramdas and Abdul Latif, raised a dispute. Ultimately in June 1965 the Government referred the dispute to the Labour Court for adjudication. The dispute referred for adjudication in the case of Abdul Latif was" wheth