IN THE HIGH COURT OF GUJARAT AT AHMEDABAD R/SPECIAL CIVIL APPLICATION NO. 24055 of 2022 ========================================================== G.N.F.C. EMPLOYEES UNION & ANR. Versus THE DEPUTY COMMISSIONER OF LABOUR AND DEPUTY REGISTRAR OF TRADE UNION & ORS. ========================================================== Appearance: MR PRABHAKAR UPADYAY(1060) for the Petitioner(s) No. 1,2 MR MRUNAL DHOLARIA AGP for the Respondent(s) No. 1 NOTICE SERVED for the Respondent(s) No. 2,3 ========================================================== CORAM:HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE HEMANT M. PRACHCHHAK Date : 30/01/2026 ORAL ORDER The petitioners have preferred present petition under Articles 226 and 227 of the Constitution of India r/w Section 14-A of the Trade Union Act, 1926 challenging the impugned orders dated 18.5.2022, 28.06.2022 and 1.10.2022 passed by the Deputy Commissioner of Labour and Deputy Registrar of Trade Union, Vadodara with below mentioned relief/s:- "18. (A) Your Lordships may kindly be pleased to issue a Writ of Mandamus and/or any other appropriate Writ, order or direction, to quash and set aside the impugned orders dated 18.05.2022, 28.06.2022 & 01.10.2022 passed by the respondent No.1, at Annexures-E, F and J respectively, to the present petition. (B) Your Lordships may kindly be pleased to hold and declare that the respondent No.1 has no jurisdiction or power to adjudicate and/or decide the dispute while exercising powers p. 2 under Section 14-A of Chapter II-A of the Indian Trade Unions (Gujarat Amendment) Act, 1961. (C) Pending the hearing and final disposal of this petition, Your Lordships may kindly be pleased to stay the implementation, execution and operation of the impugned order dated 18.05.2022, 28.06.2022 and 01.10.2022 passed by the present respondent No.1 at Annexures-E, F and J respectively, to the present petition. (D) Your Lordships may kindly be pleased to pass any other further Order/s as are deemed fit, just and proper in the facts and circumstances of the case and in the interest of justice." Today, Mr. Prabhakar Upadyay, learned counsel, under instructions, submits that during pendency of this petition, the election in question has already been conducted and, therefore, the present petition has become infructuous and may be disposed of accordingly. In view of the above submission, the present petition stands disposed of as having become infructuous. Notice is discharged. Interim relief, if any, stands vacated forthwith. It is clarified that this Court has not examined or entered into the merits of the case. (HEMANT M. PRACHCHHAK,J) SURESH SOLANKI