HON’BLE SRI JUSTICE NAGESH BHEEMAPAKA WRIT PETITION No. 2011 OF 2024

O R D E R:

Heard Sri Shyam S.Agrawal, learned counsel for petitioner, learned Government Pleader for Labour on behalf of the 1^st respondent, Sri A.K. Jayaprakash Rao, learned counsel on behalf of the 4th respondent and Sri Ch. Omernathan, learned counsel for the 3rd respondent.

2. This Writ Petition challenges the validity and propriety of the order dated 22-09-2023 in I.A.No.12 of 2021 in M.P.No.4 of 2019 on the file of the Additional Industrial Tribunal-cum-Additional Labour Court, Hyderabad (2^nd respondent). By the said order, petitioner was directed to deposit Rs.49,00,000/- to the credit of M.P.No.4 of 2019 within a period of four months from the date of the said order.

3. M.P.No.4 of 2019 was filed by the 3^rd respondent, M/s DBR Mills Telugunadu Employees’ Union, in Form K-3 under Section 33C(5) of the Industrial Disputes Act, 1947 (for short, ‘the Act’), with a prayer to compute the amount allegedly due to the workers and direct petitioner to pay the same to the 3^rd respondent with accrued interest. Petitioner contends that an agreement dated 07-03-2017 was entered into under Section

12(3) of the Act before th