IN THE HIGH COURT AT CALCUTTA Constitutional Writ Jurisdiction APPELLATE SIDE Present:

The Hon’ble Justice Shampa Dutt (Paul)

WPA 13869 of 2018 Eastern Railway Quasi Employees Union, Asansol & Ors.

Vs.

Union of India & Ors.

For the Petitioner : Mr. Rohit Banerjee, Mr. S.N.Chakraborty.

For the Union of India : Mr. Sukanta Ghosh, Mr. A. Chatterjee.

Hearing concluded on : 13.08.2025 Judgment on : 17.09.2025 Shampa Dutt (Paul), J.:

1. The writ application has been preferred challenging the award dated

13.02.2018 passed by the Central Government Industrial Tribunal in Reference no. 99 of 2006.

2. The petitioners were all working as quasi-employees/workmen in the Non statutory recognized canteen under the name and style of Asansol Railwaymen‟s Cooperative stores Ltd. (Canteen) located in the Railway premises at Station road Asansol and at Hutton road Asansol.

3. The two wings of the said Canteen, one at Station Road, Asansol and the other at Hutton Road, Asansol was locked up by the Railway Management on 19.12.2005, forcibly, without notice and by assaulting the workmen working in the canteen engaging RPF Railways. This was because the quasi workers of the aforesaid wings of the said canteen were