Supreme Court · 1959 INSC 132 · Decided 14 October 1959
India General Navigation and Railway CO. LTD. v. Their Workmen
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 1959 INSC 132 · [1960] 2 S.C.R. 1
- Case number
- CIVIL APPEAL No. 86/1958
- Decided
- 14 October 1959
- Bench
- BHUVNESHWAR PRASAD SINHA, P.B. GAJENDRAGADKAR, K. SUBBA RAO (3-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Case Partly allowed
- Case type
- Civil
- Acts & sections cited
- IPC Section 143; Constitution Article 136; Industrial Disputes Act
Headnote
.. THE SUPREME COURT REPORTS INDJA GENERAL NAVIGATION AND RAILWAY CO. LTD. v. THEIR ,WORKMEN (B. P. SINHA, C.J., P. B. GAJENDRAGADKAR and K. SuBBA RAo, JJ.) Industrial Dispute-Illegal strike in public utility service­ Lock out-Dismissal of workmen-Legality-Function of Industriat to say that a strike in a public utility service, which was clearly illegal, could also be justified. The law does not contemplate such a position nor is it warranted by any distinction made by the Industrial Disputes Act, 1947. It should be clearly understood by workmen who participate in such
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