3/81 Atul M. Setalvad, R. K. Kulkarni, D.B. Shroff, P.H. Parekh and R.N. Karanajawala for the Petitioners.
S. Nariman, T.R. Andhyarujina, S.K Wadia, O.C. Mathur and Shri Narayan for Respondent No.
3 of 1981 Arising out of Transfer Petition No.
shall be referred to as follows Air India as A.I. Indian Airlines Corporation as I.A.C. Statutory regulations made under the Air India Corporation Act of 1953 or the Indian Airlines Corporation Act of 1953 would be referred to as I. Regulation and I.A.C. Regulation respectively.
3 of 1981 and the writ petitions filed by the petitioners raise companymon companystitutional and legal questions and we propose to decide all these cases by one companymon judgment.
3, B. Datta and R.K Kapur for Respondent No.
2458 of 1980 Margaret Alva and L.R. Singh for the Petitioner, P.R. Mridul, O.C. Mathur and Shri Narain for Respondent No.
3045, 1107, 2458 1624 28/1981.
Respondent No.
Another ground taken by the applicant Air India in the transfer petition was that other writ petitions filed by the Air Hostesses employed by the Indian Airlines Corporation hereinafter referred to as I.A.C. which were pending hearing in this Court involved almost identical reliefs.
D. Damania, B.R. Agrawala, H.D. Patil and Miss Halida Khatun for Respondent No.
1107/80 Niranjan Alva and Narayan Nettar for the Petitioner, B. Pai, O.C. Mathur and Shri Narain for Respondent No.
1186 of 1980 pending in the Bombay High Court at Bombay.
IN W.P. No.
Under Article 32 of the Constitution.
ORIGINAL JURISDICTION Transferred Case No.
1 and G.S. Vaidyanathan for intervener.
1 Air India moved this Court for transfer of the writ petition filed by the petitioners, Nergesh Meerza Ors.
WITH Writ Petitions Nos.
IN TRANSFERRED CASE No.
3/81 is companycerned, it arises out of writ petition No.
1624 28 of 1981 Venkiteswaran and R.S. Sodhi for the Petitioner, C. Mathur and Shri Narain for Respondent No.
IN WP.
After hearing the transfer petition this Court by its order dated 21.1.81 allowed the petition and directed that the transfer petition arising out of writ petition No.
IN W.P. No.
3045/80 P. Singh and L.R. Singh for the Petitioners, O.C. Mathur and Shri Narain for Respondent No.
IN W.P. No.
in the Bombay High Court to this Court because the companystitutional validity of Regulation 46 1 c of Air India Employees Service Regulations hereinafter referred to as A.I. Regulations and other questions of law were involved.
1186/1980 filed by Nergesh Meerza ors.
The Judgment of the Court was delivered by FAZAL ALI, J. Transferred Case No.
1186/80 pending before the Bombay High Court be transferred to this Court.
So far as Transferred Case No.
