4 of 1976 made by the petitioner.
The said writ petition was moved by Respondent 1 Madura Coats Ltd., for a declaration that Section 25 M of the Industrial Disputes Act, 1947 as it stood under the Industrial Disputes Amendment Act, 1976 insofar as it required prior permission to be obtained to effect layoff is ultra vires and void.
11 19 of 1977, a number of similar writ petitions challenging the vires of Section 25 M of the Industrial Disputes Act and companysequential prosecutional penalty for the lay off in companytravention of Section 25 M were heard by the Division Bench of the Madras High Court and by one companymon judgment, all the said writ petitions were disposed of.
The petitioner also prayed for a writ in the nature of certiorari calling for the records of the Joint Commissioner of Labour, Madras, for quashing the order dated 11 9 1976 by which the said lay off application was rejected by the Joint Labour Commissioner.
The writ petitioner Respondent I also prayed that the State of Tamil Nadu represented by the Secretary to Government, Labour and Employment Department, Madras should be restrained from enforcing the provisions of the said Industrial Disputes Amendment Act in respect of the lay off application being Application No.
Along with the said Writ Petition No.
The Judgment of the Court was delivered by N. RAY, J. This appeal is directed against the order dated 9 4 1981 passed by the Division Bench of the High Court of Madras in Writ Petition No.
11 19 of 1977.
