JUDGMENT

The question of registration of an employer's permanent workers as headload workers have yet again come to the fore. The applications of two workers were rejected solely on the reason that the registration, if granted, will have the tendency to affect the work of the existing headload workers. The permanent workers as well as the employer have together preferred this writ petition challenging the orders refusing registration as headload workers.

2. Applications preferred by first and second petitioners for registration as headload workers attached to the establishment of the third petitioner were rejected by Ext.P7 order. As mentioned earlier, the sole reason stated by the second respondent while rejecting the applications was that if registration is granted, it may affect the work of the existing headload workers in the scheme covered area. The appellate authority also by Ext.P8 order rejected the appeal preferred by the petitioners on the same ground and hence this writ petition is preferred, seeking to set aside Ext.P7 and Ext.P8 orders and to direct registration of the first and second petitioners as headload workers and to issue the identity card as provided under Rule