Supreme Court · 1968 INSC 36 · Decided 8 February 1968
Indian Hume Pipe CO. LTD. v. Their Workmen
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 1968 INSC 36 · [1968] 3 S.C.R. 130
- Case number
- CIVIL APPEAL No. 1829/1967
- Decided
- 8 February 1968
- Bench
- G.K. MITTER, K.S. HEGDE (2-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Appeal(s) allowed
- Case type
- Civil
- Acts & sections cited
- Industrial Disputes Act Section 10
Headnote
B Industrial Dispute-Closure-Tribunal whethu can go into bona ftdes ·of closur.-Retrench,,..nt- 'Last co,,.. (int flO'-TribunaJ not compe­ .tent to app~v principle without plea beinr raised. The· lodQStrial Tribunal, deciding a dispule between. the appellant ·company and go' C should have been applied by the company in retrenching twelve of its ·workmen. In appear-to this Court. HELD: (i) Once the Tribunal finds that an employer has closed his factory as a mailer of fact it is not concerned to go into the question· aa to the motive which guided
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