C O M M O N O R D E R

The prayer sought for in both these writ petitions is for issue of Writ of Declaration to declare the Circular issued by the 3rd respondent dated 24.10.2019 and the consequential circular issued by the 1st respondent Bank dated 25.11.2019 as illegal and unauthorized and consequently to declare both the circulars as inoperative and non-est in the eye of law.

2. The case of the petitioners in short is as follows:

The petitioner is a registered trade union representing the officers and supervisory staff working in the Respondent Bank respectively. The membership, admission, register of members and removal of membership are defined under the Rules and Bye-laws and such right of admission of the membership is vested purely at the discretion of the Union and no one can automatically become the member on mere submissions of application form. The department of Financial Services, Ministry of Finance, Government of India, issued circular dated 24.10.2019, to SBI and all other nationalized banks regarding online facility for recording/modifying employee mandate for deduction of association membership subscription from the salary and linking the same to HRMS for auto deduc