( 1 ) THE petitioner, Karnataka Agro Industries Corporation Employees' Association, is a trade union registered under the Trade Unions Act, 1926, and it is the representative union of the employees of the third respondent-Corporation. It is not in dispute that the third respondent is a government company registered under the Companies Act, 1956. The petitioner has sought for a writ in the nature of mandamus to the State Government, the first respondent herein, to grant the necessary sanction for prosecuting the third respondent-Corporation under Section 13 (3) of the industrial Employment Standing Orders Act, 1946 (in short, the 'standing Orders Act, 1946) and for a further direction to third respondent not to enforce Service Rules as they exist now covering the service condition of its employee.

( 2 ) THE learned counsel for the petitioner submitted that though the third respondent-Corporation came into existence some time in 1967 and had been employing more than 100 workmen, it had never drafted any standing orders as contemplated under Section 3 of the Standing Orders Act and in spite of the petitioner's demands from time to time, the Corporation had been taking the stand that

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