Appeal by Special Leave from the Judgment and order dated the 5 12 74 of the Punjab and Haryana High Court in Civil Writ Petition No.
These triple categories of new posts have been filled, admittedly, without reference to the quota set apart for promotees, the defence of the respondent being that these new cadres are number companyered by the agreement referred to in the writ petition.
Assistant Inspecting Officers, Junior Accountants and Accountants were made by direct recruitment companytrary to what he companytends are service rules but, in substance, are the result of companylective bargaining with the management, as the writ petition itself reveals.
CIVIL APPELLATE JURISDICTION Civil Appeal No.
Shri M.K. Ramamurthy challenges the holding of the High Court on the score that the Punjab State Cooperative Land Mortgage Bank Ltd., State Bank, for short is other authority within the meaning of Art.
The High Court both the learned Single Judge and the Division Bench following an earlier judgment of that Court in Dharam Pal v. State of Punjab held the writ petition to be incompetent, directed as it was against a Cooperative Society.
K. Ramamurthi, J. Ramamurthi and Ramesh C. Pathak for the appellants.
L. Gupta, Janendra Lal and B. R. Agarwala for Respondents Nos.
6344/74.
5 to 22/75.
747 of 1975.
Consequently, a writ may issue against it.
The Judgment of the Court was delivered by KRISHNA IYER, J. This Civil Appeal, by special leave under Art.
12 of the Constitution and, therefore, falls within the definition of State.
