REPORTABLE IN THE SUPREME COURT OF INDIA CIVIL APPELLATE JURISDICTION CIVIL APPEAL NOS. 115-116 OF 2017 (Arising out of SLP (C) Nos. 26523-26524 OF 2012)

Secretary Mahatama Gandhi Mission & Another … Appellants Versus Bhartiya Kamgar Sena & Others … Respondents WITH CIVIL APPEAL NOS. 117-118 OF 2017 (Arising out of SLP (C) Nos. 26525-26526 OF 2012)

CIVIL APPEAL NOS. 119-120 OF 2017 (Arising out of SLP (C) Nos. 26519-26520 OF 2012)

J U D G M E N T

Chelameswar, J.

1. Leave granted.

2. The first appellant in all these three appeals is a charitable trust registered under the Bombay Public Trusts Act, 1950. The first appellant established and has been administering two engineering colleges, one at Nanded and another at Aurangabad in the State of Maharashtra. The first respondent appears to be an unregistered body of persons who are the employees of the first appellant. They are the staff of the abovementioned two engineering colleges belonging either to the category of teaching or non-teaching staff. The details of which are not necessary for the purpose of this case.

3. In the year 2002, the first respondent and others (some non-teaching members in the employment of the appellant) approached