High Court Karnataka High Court

South Western Railway Employees … vs Union Of India on 23 October, 2008

Karnataka High Court
South Western Railway Employees … vs Union Of India on 23 October, 2008
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"  A'   S Joshi, Adv)

 PETITIONER

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*-.VREPRfESENTED BY ITS SECRETARY

MIH¥S'k'3?éY OF RAILWAYS

 RAIL BI-IAVAN, NEW DELHI

CHAIRMAN, RAILWAYS BUM?!)

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H GENERAL MAANGER

SOUTH WESTERN RAELWAY
HUBLI, HEAD QUARTERS
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NAIRUTYA RAELWAY MAZDOOR SANGHA
BY §'I'S GENERAL SECRETARY



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[Sri G R An<1anjmat!3,A'"Adv_.for R41 1:0 3';
Sri I)..J'~ Naik, Adv: ._for 53-4;
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.' V'  - 'V  := :WT~Iit pgti%;i<;zi"i5y"tI1e South Western Railway Employees

   union under the Trade Unimzs Act,

1936, is aggieved that an electitm conducted by the

   of the South Western Rafiway in terms of the

'g  of events notified on 11-102007 [Anm::xure-~D to

 "  writ petition] and said to have bmn loaded on the

intemet giving it wide publicity, indicating that the actual

elections will take piano on 26*, 2731 and 28* November,



2007 and the results will be declared on 3- 

been conducted and the zeeult 

terms of Axmexure-K, declaring:  f;  

Nairutya Railway Mazdoof isp   'the
necogmzed' union of South    to tide
outcome of WP No  ' on the file
of High      Writ pefifion,
presented   had not accepted
the   conducted strictly in
  formulated by the Supreme

Court     such elections; that the

 "  __  of  is not in consonance with the said

   therefore the petitioner has raised 9. dispute

  Mir in tame of para-27 of the

 sohenee; that the general manager who was required to

  the dispute, having not acted upon the dispuee

'  by the peu'tim1er, but in the inmrrwzum taking

steps to efiectuate the resukts, which aflbcts the interest of

the petitioner and hence the present writ petition.

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2. This court while issued notice to  

initially, had passed an order   

8--9-2008. _ __   ' % 
3. The respondents    

appearance through c9unsei;” 1.. to 3 am
represented by Sri G respondent is

represented D and Hegde

are

mspo1;deIlts.,l’v -v.3A'<}pposes " l s the writ petition saying' that

no for interfarnce 'm tlm matter in writ

the griavancc of the petitioner has been

by the endarsement issued by the CPC

terI;.'a;l:$l'i-of Anncxurc-F' dated 9-1-2003, Sri 1:: 3 Naik,

counsel for the foam: respormcnt, cm behafi' of

' statement of objectiens has also bwl filed, has

A highlighted their own difficultics, particularly the fourth

respondent having been declmed as the
on behalf of the empioyees of the"'2E;ngl
are being not provided with "

their was etc., and that
the petitione.r–union, on the
premises by taking qua order
granted by am the writ
petition %

5. iaamed counsel fer the pefitioncr

would that the elections having not

_ beelaffiazxducttid with the modalities of the

by the Supreme Court, such elections

as iilewl and Without authority of law

‘.Vetc.,.44uha:§ m’ged:. ‘V for granting further prayers as sought for ‘m

peuaon.

6.] ‘ “On the other hand, Sri Andarrnnath, leanm counsel

‘V V the Union of India and the Raiiways, asserts that the

petitioner is not entitlcd for any of the prayers sought for

and if any one of the prayers is to be granted,

to sitting in judment over the manner of

elections in accordance with

itself has provided for an Veisgztioii’ vfiic ” V
manager of the railways – disputes mad

therefore the of not be 1:VtA$adc subject

matterlofwrit of ‘ ‘

7. It petitioner me; the

dispute raise’ bwn resolved by

the genmal person, but the

petitioner ig-,~,~ gm. “an endmsement issued by

Sri Am-1am’mam, learned

. fof 1 to 3 does sumit ttmt the

not been looked into by the mmrai manager
be taken that ‘K. is sax: pending more the general

,, /» . x \’ \ \ ” fix

9. On an n of the petition the

annextlre and the submissions at the Bar,

clear opinion that the prayer

petition cannot be granted, pa1t;”ic111;ériy, a

declaration that uzeexectioriig-5:11 is e’i;e., and
therefore the inddentgd as Sri
Sumesh s Joshi, lwmed ffi:e–.petitiox1er, in the

alternative, of V’ “fins, subm1%1g’ that

a. for the reason that
the even as back as on 7-10~–

2007, is expedeciously mad cannot

* be file ti1e.–,=£«:.ne general manager indefinitely.

A to the interim order gantw by this mam:

.V for”inai1itaiiih1gstmxsquo,Imnoftt1eviewthat11om1ch

be granted by this court, as th$ court dew not

–‘ the merits of any development in the course of the

T of the elect1o’ I18 even in terms of the modafities of

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the scheme formulated by the supmme _ a:xs

indicated in para-27 of the sct1emc,..which .

27. Any @5911?’ . %.y
election,/counting ofvo£s_s shoal! be the ‘
the Zonal final
It is the oonwtum the
election wiiil into the matter.

When the general manager
and the manager being only
relating’ to the whet-em’ the mammr
in yvhich Vfllcvielecfion will also be loked into

alffiing particularly the relief msed on an

of one as’ the other trade union or

or the other made union had earlier

nor can he made incidental to a

{films ofthe mragraph 27 ofthe scheme. I say

reason that when once election hm-3 been

tmda the scheme, and the result declared, the

oonseqoenoes necessmily follow and

prevented or undone unless t11eMmelectioi1″ itoeif

setting aside the result of elecflono. 3

11. Therefore, while the this
court eawlier in this for the
reason that as petitioner has
approached premises in their
relief and rightly so
as the in possession of

a pre1n1’sez3_jfiv’hether*jVoe:_’lioeinoee”‘. or in any other capacity, is

V not fag.’ taattet ‘is toquined to be exmnined in writ

when the said issue is already the subject

‘on by the cum’ ‘3 court, and parties will

H V’ .V haveto by the decision of the civil court ‘H1 respect of

H K of -any property and the occupation of the

p1~¢mes by the pefitioner hem inciciental to the petitioner
‘ the status ofa recognized as the recognized trade

union by the enL the interim order gantod in this

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petition cannot be continued and it is accondingly

dissolved. .4 .,
1 1. The third respondent-«general manfixf :is-

examine and resolve the election dispute.

petitioner pending before him

from the date of conclusitm of s:.1c ‘i1
purpose, as submitted by for the
petitioner the pefifiénei’ _w:fi}l the general

12. Wrifpetitieix-__ie*’giiepmda” ofaccordingjy.
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