By the time the award was made two of the workmen Nos.
Appeal by special leave from the Award dated April 3, 1961 of the Seventh Industrial Tribunal, West Bengal, in Case No.
12 and 37 had died and four had been reemployed Nos.
Sen, S.C. Mazumdar, D. N. Mukherjee for B. N. Ghosh, for the appellant.
Janardhan Sharma, for the respondents.
of these workmen the cases of three fall to be companysidered separately and those of the remaining ten can be companysidered together.
359 of 1962.
31, 33, 34 and 35 .
In the enquiry which the Tribunal held the Company examined five witnesses including Mr. Marshall, Mr. Nichols and Mr. Dhawan, who were the eye witnesses.
22 was number found to be a workman at all.
This was such a travesty of the principles of natural ,justice that the Tribunal was justified in rejecting the findings and asking the Company to prove the allegation against each workman de numbero before it.
One of the workmen No.
CIVIL APPELLATE JURISDICTION Civil Appeal No.
The judgment of the Court was delivered by HIDAYATULLAH J. By this appeal filed with the special leave of this Court, by the Meenglas Tea Estate against its Workmen the Company seeks to challenge an award dated April 3 , 1961, pronounced by the Seventh Industrial Tribunal, West Bengal.
February 22.
It was then transferred to the Seventh Industrial Tribunal and the letter made the impugned award on April 3, 1961.
From November 5, 1957, to August 17, 1960, this reference remained pending before the First Labour Court.
What relief by way of reinstatement and or companypensation are they entitled to?
VIII 303 of 1960.
The order of reference was made by the Government of West Bengal as far back as October 29, 1957, in respect of the dismissal of 44 workmen.
The issue which was referred was as follows Whether the dismissal of the workmen mentioned in the attached list is justified ?
