' This case is fixed only for hearing of miscellaneous application but with the consent of parties'
Advocate I have taken up the main petition. The real contest in the case is between the petitioner and respondent No, 3 while respondents 1 and 2 or officials who have passed orders in the case and respondent No, 4 is the management. The learned counsel for the petitioner and respondent No, 3 now agree that election to the posts of office-bearers of Pfizer Employees Trade Union may be held under the supervision of respondent No, 2 whose representative is present in Court. They also agree that the elected office-bearers will take over their office from the date of such election and shall be entitled to exercise their rights under the Constitution of the Union as and from the date of such assumption of their office. The learned counsel for respondent No, 4 neither opposes nor accepts this arrangement between the petitioner and respondent No, 3 but requests' that it may be clarified that all the existing agreements between the management and union will be binding on the incumbents of the Union office. The representative of respondent No, 2 present in Court states that on the basis of above agreement between petitioner and respondent d he can arrange holding of election within 15 days, in accordance with the terms of the Constitution of Union. I accordingly by consent of the counsel for the petitioner and respondent No, 3 and the representative of respondent No, 2 direct that election to the posts of office-bearers of Trade Union namely Pfizer Laboratories Employees Union be held within a period of 15 days from today under the supervision of respondent No,
2. The petition is disposed of with no order as to costs. As a result of disposal of main petition the injunction application also stands disposed of. It is, however, clarified by consent of learned counsel for the petitioner as well as respondent No, 3 that any agreement entered into between previous office-bearers of Union and the management shall be binding on the newly-elected office-bearers of Union in accordance with the law. The main petition is disposed of in terms of the above consent order. As a result of disposal of main petition, the miscellaneous application is also disposed of accordingly.