WP No. 29963 of 2024 IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT MADRAS DATED: 20-03-2025 CORAM THE HONOURABLE MR JUSTICE M.DHANDAPANI WP No.29963 of 2024 and WMP No.32664 of 2024 1 M/s.kandasamy Spinning Mills Private Ltd Rep. By Its Managing Director, Suriyampalayam, Bhavani Main Road, Vasavi College Post, Erode Taluk, Erode District Vs 1 S.Palanisamy 2 M.mani 3 R.rajamanickam 4 T. Ganesan 5 N. Pandurangan 6 K.jothimani 7 M. Gunasekaran 8 K. Chinnasamy 9 P.ponnusamy 10 V.arumugam 11 A.narayanasamy 12 R. Kesavan 13 R. Manoharan 14 S. Mozhiarasu 15 P.eswaramoorthi https://www.mhc.tn.gov.in/judis WP No. 29963 of 2024 16 M.varatharajan 17 A. Murugesan 18 K. Kuppusamy 19 R. Shanmugam 20 A.periyanayagam 21 R. Palanisamy 22 K. Venkatachalam 23 P.ganesh 24 B. Perumal 25 C.palanisamy 26 K. Gunasekaran 27 P.thangavel 28 T.velusamy 29 P.malaisamy 30 A.s. Radhakrishnan 31 T.ramasamy 32 N.perumal 33 K.manickam 34 A. Velusamy 35 M. Kamaraj 36 A. Subramanian 37 R. Janarthanan 38 D.michelraj 39 M.rajendran 40 A.subramani 41 R. Thiyagarajan 42 K.p. Selvaraj 43 M.ponkkiannan 44 K.kathiravel 45 T.murugesan 46 P.mariappan 47 K.krishnamoorthi 48 G.chandan 49 A.subramani https://www.mhc.tn.gov.in/judis WP No. 29963 of 2024 50 P.palanisamy 51 S.seetharaman 52 V.perumal 53 K.mathappan 54 S.mohanraj 55 C.ramasamy 56 P.Nagarajan 57 S.poornachandran 58 R. Mani 59 O. Karunanithi 60 S. Thangaraj 61 A.sambulingam 62 K.a. Subramani 63 A. Subramani 64 B.thirumoorthy 65 C.thangaraj 66 R.balasubramaniam 67 K.chinnasamy 68 R.matheswaran 69 K.ravi 70 M.subramani 71 P.sundaram 72 M.rajagopal 73 A.andavar 74 K.raji 75 V.ramanathan 76 S.thangavel 77 V.balasubramaniam 78 N. Natarajan 79 R.sellavel 80 K.dhakshinamoorthy 81 N.ashokumar 82 K.chinnsamy 83 V.krishnamoorthi https://www.mhc.tn.gov.in/judis WP No. 29963 of 2024 84 R. Ramachandran 85 K. Mani 86 G.ravi 87 K.arunachalam 88 P.kannan 89 P.thangamuthu 90 M. Vadivel 91 K.selvan 92 K. Chandran 93 R.s. Ramasamy 94 M. Shanmugam 95 G.gurumoorthy 96 A. Udayakumar 97 R.arunachalam 98 M. Arunagiri 99 G.rajendran 100 R.rajan 101 P.periannan 102 K. Sivalingam 103 N. Moorthy 104 A. Abdul Basha 105 P.n. Mathappan 106 G.ponnusamy 107 K. Ramakrishnan 108 G.mohanraj 109 P. Balasubramani 110 G. Natarajan 111 K.palanisamy 112 A.duraisamy 113 M. Muthusamy 114 K. Manoharan 115 G. Rajan 116 P.marusamy 117 V.gurusamy https://www.mhc.tn.gov.in/judis WP No. 29963 of 2024 118 C.arichami 119 M.s.saravanabhava 120 P.shanmugam 121 A. Sangameswaran 122 R.matheswaran 123 S.ramasamy 124 A. Palanisamy 125 V.eswaran 126 K.kanagarathinam 127 P.rangasamy 128 V.viswanathan 129 K.periyasamy 130 R. Kumar 131 S.magendran 132 K.kumar 133 N.loganathan 134 C.m. Subramaniam 135 B. Balakrishnan 136 G.ravichandran 137 M.s. Harikumar 138 A.nallan 139 N. Veersamy 140 K. Murugesan 141 K.gunasekaran 142 K. Ramalingam 143 K. Nallasamy 144 R.shanmugam 145 T.p. Srirangan 146 P.kandasamy 147 K. Rajendran 148 A.raju 149 K. Nagaraj 150 N. Rajendran 151 K.ravi https://www.mhc.tn.gov.in/judis WP No. 29963 of 2024 152 K.arujunan 153 J.g.bharathi 154 M. Balsubramaniam 155 S.rajendran 156 P.duraisamy 157 K.m. Subramaniam 158 T.mani 159 R.palanisamy 160 M.s.baskaran 161 M.munusamy 162 R.soundararajan 163 M.saminathan 164 K.sampath 165 K.kittusamy 166 A.murugan 167 C.duraisamy 168 C.sundaram 169 A.r.kuppusamy 170 V.balu 171 A.rathinam 172 S.durairaj 173 K.sekar 174 R.samiappan 175 S.balasubramaniam 176 S.manickam 177 C.nagaraj 178 G.ramasamy 179 A.palanisamy 180 V.shanmugam 181 S.ganesan 182 C.venkatachalam 183 K.thangavel 184 A. Manickam 185 A.perumal https://www.mhc.tn.gov.in/judis WP No. 29963 of 2024 186 R. Loganthan 187 K.ravichandran 188 P.ramasamy 189 G.gunasekaran 190 S.chandrasekaran 191 K.palanisamy 192 K.rajappan 193 D.thangaraj 194 O.mahalingam 195 P.thirunavukkarasu 196 P. Loganathan 197 L. Mahalingam 198 S.sivanantham 199 S.palanisamy 200 K.thangavel 201 P.narayanan 202 V.thangavel 203 L.eswaran 204 P.gopal 205 M.rathinasamy 206 N.venkatachalam 207 E.murugesan 208 M. Shanmugam 209 S.syed Mohamed 210 K. Murugesan 211 G.rajendran 212 M. Sivakumar 213 S.selvan 214 K.palanisamy 215 N. Rajendran 216 A. Chinnathambi 217 P. Narayanasamy 218 K. Duraisamy 219 K. Murugesan https://www.mhc.tn.gov.in/judis WP No. 29963 of 2024 220 N.s. Venkatachalam 221 P. Kailasam 222 T.gnanadurai 223 M.matheswaran 224 R. Arumugam 225 K. Chandran 226 K.n. Arumugam 227 B.m. Periyasamy 228 R. Duraisamy 229 G. Venkatachalam 230 K.d. Matheswaran 231 D. Duraisamy 232 S.sakthivel 233 K.nagaraj 234 A. Arjunan 235 E.p. Raju 236 M. Singarayan 237 S.sivalingam 238 G. Krishnamoorthy 239 K..thagavel 240 P.mariappan 241 M.Marimuthu 242 R. Krishnamoorthy 243 P.sakthi 244 K.raman 245 S.mani 246 G.krishnamoorthi 247 P.natarajan 248 R.thangavelu 249 K.palanisamy 250 M. Sengodan 251 T.perumal 252 C.sengodan 253 N. Angamuthu https://www.mhc.tn.gov.in/judis WP No. 29963 of 2024 254 S.murugan 255 K.raman 256 M. Shanmugam 257 D. Venkatachalam 258 P.v. Subramaniam 259 S.govindan 260 V. Kuppusamy 261 C.p. Rajendran 262 K. Matheswaran 263 M.arumugam 264 S.ravi 265 V.kumarasamy PRAYER: This Writ Petition has been filed under Article 226 of Constitution of India, to issue a writ of Certiorari, Calling for records relating to the impugned common order dated 10.09.2024 made in all the I.A. Nos. 1 of 2024 filed in the respective I.D. Nos 88, 90 to 94, 96 to 98, 100, 105 , 112 to 114, 116 to 125, 127, 128, 130 to 133, 135 to 155, 159 to 169, 172 to 178, 180 to 196, 198 to 208, 210, 213, 214, 216, 217 to 220, 222, 223, 225, 226, 229 to 242, 244, 245 to 247, 249 to 251, 253 to 290, 292 to 299, 301, 303 to 305, 307, 310, 311, 313 to 325, 328 to 332, 334, 335, 337 to 358, 360, 361, 363 to 367, 369 to 374, 377 to 384, 673 to 675, 677 to 686, 688 to 694 of 2004 on the file of the Learned. Labour Court Salem quash the same and consequently direct the Labour court Salem to identify the number of worker For Petitioner(s): MR. N.Manoharan For Respondent(s): R-1 LAOBUR COURT Mr.N.G.R.Prasad for M/s.Row & Reddy for RR1 to 13, RR15 to 27, RR29 to 51, RR53 to 77 & 79, RR81 to 92 & 94, 95, 97 to 99, 101 to 133, 135 to 156, 158 to 174, 176 to 184, 186 to 218, 220 & 221, https://www.mhc.tn.gov.in/judis WP No. 29963 of 2024 223 to 236, 239 to 245, 247 to 252, 254 & 255, 257 to 259, 261 to 265 Steps due to bing on records as deceased of the legal heirs – RR14, 25, 52, 78, 80, 93, 96, 100, 134, 157, 175, 185, 219, 222, 237, 238, 249, 253, 256, 260 ORDER The petitioner has come forward with this writ petition challenging the common order dated 10.09.2024 passed by the Labour Court, Salem in ID. No.88/2024 and etc. batch. 2. The said industrial dispute was raised by the petitioner Management and the major issue that was raised before the Labour Court was regarding maintainability of the industrial dispute. The Labour Court had analysed the said issue of maintainability of industrial dispute as primarily issue raised by the management is a mixed question of fact and law which requires oral and documentary evidence and cane be decided along with the other issues after completion of trial. The labour Court ultimately rejected the prayer of the petitioner to try the issue regarding maintainability of the industrial dispute as primary issue and imposed a cost of Rs.5000/- on each petition observing that that workmen/respondents were struggling to get justice for more than 40 years. Aggrieved by the said award, the present writ petition has been filed. https://www.mhc.tn.gov.in/judis WP No. 29963 of 2024 3. The petitioner is principally aggrieved by the award of cost imposed on it in each of the industrial disputes. 4. Without going into the arguments advanced on both sides, considering the fact that the issue between the parties as a chquered history and the respondent/workmen are agitating for the past 40 years, this Court is inclined to dispose of the writ petition with the following directions: 1. The cost imposed by the Labour Court in each of the industrial disputes is set aside; 2. The parties are directed to canvass all the points before the Labour Court on the merits of the case; and 3. The labour Court is directed to dispose of the industrial dispute as expeditiously as possible and in any case within a period of three months from the date of receipt of a copy of this order. 5. With the above direction, the writ petition is disposed of. No costs. 20-03-2025 rli Index:Yes/No Speaking/Non-speaking order Internet:Yes Neutral Citation:Yes/No M.DHANDAPANI J. https://www.mhc.tn.gov.in/judis WP No. 29963 of 2024 rli To 1.The Presiding Officer First Additional Labour Court Chennai WP No.29963 of 2024 20.03.2025 https://www.mhc.tn.gov.in/judis WP No. 29963 of 2024 https://www.mhc.tn.gov.in/judis WP No. 29963 of 2024 20-03-2025 https://www.mhc.tn.gov.in/judis