RAMENDRA SINGH Vs. UNION OF INDIA

JUDGEMENT

(1.) HEARD the counsel for the parties.

(2.) IN this writ application the petitioners seek a direction upon the respondents to regularise and permanently absorb their services as regular employees of respondent No. 2, Steel Authority of Indiain -Bokaro Steel Plant and further to allow them the same wages and other benefits which the other employees are getting.

(3.) A counter -affidavit has been filed by respondents 3 to 6 in which it is stated, inter alia, that for the same relief the petitioners through Union moved the Supreme Court by filing civil writ petition being writ petition (c) No. 173/99. The said writ petition was filed in a representative capacity by several labourers including these writ petitioners. The Supreme Court refused to entertain the writ application on the ground that the question of abolition of contract labour was under consideration before the Advisory Board under Section 10 of the Contract Labour (Regulation and Abolition) Act, 1970. It is further stated in the counter affidavit that the matter is still sub -judice before the Advisory Board.