14/ per day which came to be ennanced to Rs.
THE 29TH DAY OF APRIL, 1998 Present Honble Mr. Justice G.T. Nanavati Honble Mr. Justice S.P. Kurdukar N. Goswami, Sr.
The appellant Nos.
Ms. Smitha Inna and Ms. Sushma Suri, Advs.
M s. Bandel Handling Porters Cooperative Society Ltd. Several labourers were also engaged by different organizations labour companytractors for doing the work on several development projects undertaken by the Eastern Railway on Contract basis.
with him for the appellants.
1045 of 1995 by the Central Administrative Tribunal for short CAT Calcutta.
the companytracts were entered into between the said companyoperative societies and the authorities of the Eastern Railway.
C. Ray, Sr.
The respondents who are 20 in number filed D.A. NO.
J U D G M E N T The following Judgment of the Court was delivered P. KURDUKAR, J. This appeal by Special Leave is filed by the appellants challenging the companyrectness of the judgment and order dated 13.3.1997 passed in O.A. No.
They were engaged as labourers through a companytractor viz.,
The respondents have been performing their duties and the functions to the satisfaction of the appellants and numbercomplaint of whatsoever nature was made against their work.
Rajesh Srivastava, Ujjwal Banerjee, S.K. Bandhopadhyay, P.Varghese and H.K. Puri, Advs.
Calcutta alleging inter alia that they have been working as labourers since 1988 till date companytinuously and uninterruptedly in the printing press of the Eastern Railway at Calcutta .
with him for the Respondents.
it is then alleged that the Contract labour Regulation and Abolition Act and Rules were enacted in the year 1971 for the purpose of ameliorating the grievances of the companytract labourers who have been engaged by the companytractors.
1045 of 1995 before the Central Administrative Tribunal.
They were initially paid daily wages Rs.
1 to 5 have filed their reply denying the claim made by the respondents.
