(Judgment of the Court was delivered by DR.ANITA SUMANTH, J.)

We have heard Mr.Ajmal Khan, learned Additional Advocate General assisted by the learned counsel for the petitioners and Mr.V.Ajay Khose, learned counsel for Mr.A.Rahul, for R1 in W.A.(MD)No.2593 of

2025.

2. Both learned counsel accede to the position that writ appeals in W.A.(MD)Nos.2407 to 2413 of 2015 filed by Tamil Nadu State Transport Corporation (Kumbakonam), involving identical issue have been allowed by order dated 21.08.2025 and hence, the same order may be passed in the present case as well. That order reads as follows.

The Writ Appeals have been instituted challenging the common order dated 15.03.2024 in batch of writ petitions.

2. The writ petitions have been instituted by the drivers/conductors working in the appellants Transport Corporation. Admittedly, they are workmen governed under the Industrial Disputes Act . The service conditions are also governed under the settlements entered into between the management and the Workmen. Therefore, in the considered opinion of this Court that the aggrieved Workmen have to raise a dispute before the Labor Court in normal circumstances. However, in the present cases, inste