JUDGEMENT
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(1.)THIS is a writ petition under Article 226 of the Constitution by the Good Year india Ltd. praying for quashing the order of reference dated 16th May, 1967 by the Government of Rajasthan to the Industrial Tribunal, Jaipur and for an injunction restraining the respondents from proceeding with the purported adjudication.
(2.)THE petitioner, Good Year India Ltd. , is a company duly incorporated under the indian Companies Act having its Head Office at 225-C Acharya Jagdish Bose Road, calcutta with branches at many places in India including the one at Swastika house, Station Road, Jaipur. Shri A. A. Dhingra; respondent No. 4 was previously sales representative of the Company at Jullunder. In January, 1954, he was posted at Jaipur in the same capacity. On April 1, 1964 he was made sales assistant and on 1st January, 1966 he was made area supervisor. As an area supervisor, Shri Dhingra was in charge of the whole of the State of Rajasthan and a few towns of Madhya Pradesh. On 16-12-66, when his services were terminated by the Company, he was drawing a salary of Rs. 763. 36 (Rs. 706 basic salary plus rs. 57. 36 paise dearness allowance) besides a sizable amount as sales bonus. He was directly responsible to the District Manager of the Company stationed at Delhi. For business purposes, Delhi district of the Company comprised the States of punjab, Rajasthan, Himachal Pradesh, Kashmir, Hariyana, part of Uttar Pradesh and Madhya Pradesh. Annexure 'a' is a copy of the letter dated 16-12-1966, by which the employee's services were terminated.
(3.)ACCORDING to the petitioner, the duties of the employee were of a supervisory nature. His duties did not involve any manual, technical or clerical work. Further the employee's salary was at all material times more than Rs. 500 per month. He was, therefore, not a workman within the definition of Section 2 (s) of the industrial Disputes Act, 1947 (hereinafter called the Act ).
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