HON’BLE SRI JUSTICE NAGESH BHEEMAPAKA WRIT PETITION No. 9126 OF 2017

O R D E R:

Heard Sri L. Ravichander, learned Senior Counsel on behalf of Sri Srinivas Bobbili, learned counsel for petitioner and Ms. V. Uma Devi, learned Standing Counsel for Respondents 3 and 4.

2. The case of petitioner in a nutshell is that it is a registered and recognised trade union and is operating in Adilabad Unit of Cement Corporation of India (CCI). Adilabad Unit is one of the twelve units of CCI which was declared as sick company by Board of Industrial & Financial Reconstruction (BIFR) on 08.08.1996. It was found viable up to 2004, but strangely, BIFR, by order dated 21.3.2006 directed to close Adilabad Unit. The Appellate Authority for Industrial & Financial Reconstruction (AAIFR), by order dated 17.11.2006 confirmed BIFR order dated 21.03.2006. Then CCI sought to close Adilabad Unit and announced Voluntary Separation Scheme-2007 ('VSS-2007'). Aggrieved by the same, Petitioner Trade Union filed Writ Petition No. 5487 of 2007, wherein this Court granted an interim order of status quo dated 20.04.2007. Later, by order dated 27.02.2008, the said order was modified permitting CCI to file an Application befo