Supreme Court of India

Glaxo Laboratories v. The Presiding Officer, Labour Court Meerut & Ors.

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Bench D.A. Desai, O. Chinnappa Reddy and A. Varadarajan JJ.
Decided 6 October 1983

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What the Court ordered

The appeal therefore, fails and is dismissed with costs quantified at Rs. 5,000.

Judgment, p. 250

In brief

Glaxo's Aligarh factory declared a lockout in May 1977 which was lifted on 13 May; on the same day some workmen struck work and allegedly obstructed those reporting for duty. On 27 May 1977 the second respondent and nine striking colleagues allegedly boarded a bus chartered by the company exclusively for 'loyal workmen' and, at various points along the Anupshahr-Aligarh road and elsewhere en route, abused, beat and threatened those workmen, snatched property and extracted promises that they would not work during the strike.…

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