JUDGEMENT
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(1.)Leave granted.
(2.)Aggrieved by a direction of the Madras High Court in exercise of its
contempt jurisdiction to create supernumerary posts, this appeal has been
filed by the respondents in the contempt proceeding.
(3.)Shorn off unnecessary details the core facts that would need a
recital are enumerated hereinbelow.
The respondents in the present appeal were engaged as Radio Operators
on contract basis in the Oil and Natural Gas Corporation Ltd. (hereinafter
referred to as "the Corporation"), a Public Sector Undertaking, inter alia,
engaged in on-shore and off-shore oil and natural gas exploration. By a
notification dated 08.09.1994 issued under Section 10(1) of the Contract
Labour (Regulation and Abolition) Act, 1970 employment of contract labour
in various works in the Corporation, including the work of Radio Operators,
was prohibited. A Writ Petition bearing No. 15211 of 1991 seeking a
direction to the Corporation to treat the contract Radio Operators at par
with the regular Marine Assistant Radio Operators was pending before the
High Court at that point of time. Subsequently, the union representing 56
number of contract employees engaged as Radio Operators instituted another
Writ Petition i.e. W.P. No. 1178 of 1996 seeking the same relief.
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