Police must enforce injunction against illegal strikes obstructing factory access, ensuring free ingress/egress per prior court orders.

Prayer : Writ Petition filed under Article 226 of Constitution of India to issue a Writ in the nature of writ of Mandamus or any other appropriate Writ or Direction directing the 1, 2 and 4th respondents herein to provide adequate police protection for ingress and aggress of vehicle and people from in and out of the factory premises and further vacate the trespassing workmen by ensuring that no striking workers assemble illegally in any form within the radius of 500 meters from petitioners factory premises namely J.K.Tyre and Industries Ltd., Chennai Tyre Plant Sriperumpudur Taluk, Kancheepuram District, pursuant to the complaint of the petitioner dated 17.03.2026.

For Petitioner(s): Mr.R.Vignesh Kumaasamy FOR M/s. Advit Law Chambers For Respondent(s): Mr. LEONARD ARUL JOSEPH SELVAM ADDITIONAL PP – R1, 2 & 4

ORDER

This Writ Petition has been filed to direct the respondents 1, 2 and 4 to provide adequate police protection for ingress and aggress of vehicle and people from in and out of the factory premises and further vacate the trespassing workmen by ensuring that no striking workers assemble illegally in any form within the radius of 500 meters from petitioners factory premises namely J.K.Tyre and Industries Ltd., Chennai Tyre Plant Sriperumpudur Taluk, Kancheepuram District, pursuant to the complaint of the petitioner dated

17.03.2026.

2. The petitioner is a tyre manufacturing company and the factory is situated in Kolathur Village, Sriperumbudur Talk and it is functioning from February 2012. The factory employed more than 1000 persons including permanent workmen, trainees and probationers. Settlements have been entered periodically with the third respondent and the last settlement was signed on 26.04.2022 and it expired on 31.03.2025. Upon expiry of the said settlement, the third respondent union submitted its charter of demands seeking revision of wages. Despite continuous engagement of the petitioner management in collective bargaining and negotiations, as no agreement could be reached regarding wage revision, the dispute was taken up for conciliation before the Deputy Commissioner of Labour and the conciliation proceedings is pending. While so, the third respondent union issued a strike notice on 02.03.2026 and thereby attempting to exert unlawful pressure on the petitioner and the third respondent union and its members may obstruct ingress and egress of employees, vehicles and materials and disrupt the normal functioning of the factory. Earlier, as similar strikes have been held obstructing ingress and egress of employees, vehicles and materials and disrupted normal functioning of the factory, the petitioner had filed a suit in O.S.No.79 of 2017 and the suit has been decreed in favour of the petitioner for permanent injunction on 05.12.2020. Despite the injunction decree, as the third respondent union members continued to resort to illegal strike, a Writ Petition in W.P.No.31355 of 2022 has also been filed and this Court by an Order 23.11.2022 had directed the respondent police to do needful for free ingress and egress of the workmen and vehicles from and out of the factory. Since, the third respondent has again issued strike notice, the petitioner had sent complaint to the first and second respondents. However, the same has not been considered by them. Hence, the present Writ Petition.

3. The learned Additional Public Prosecutor would submit that the complaint of the petitioner dated 17.03.2026 is under consideration and the same will be considered by the second respondent.

4. A perusal of materials available on record reveals that earlier the petitioner had moved this Court for a similar relief in W.P.No.31255 of 2022 and this Court by an Order dated 23.11.2022 had passed the f