Supreme Court of India

BHARAT PETROLEUM CORPORATION LTD v. MUMBAI SHRAMIK SANGHA AND ORS

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Judicial discipline-Judgment given by a Constitution Bench*-Bench of two Judges doubted the correctness of judgment ·of Constitution Bench C Consequential reference-Held-Decision· of Constitution Bench binds a Bench of two Judges-Judicial discipline obliges them to follow and decided by a Bench of two Judges. *Gammon (India) Ltd. v. Union of India, [1974] 3 SCR 665, referred D to. CIVIL APPELLATE JURISDICTION: Civil Appeal No. 6213 of 1997. From the Judgment and Order dated 30/31.1.97 and 21.2.97 of the Bombay E High Court in W.P. No. 436of1991. F T.R.

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Court: Supreme Court of India
Case number: CIVIL APPEAL No. 6213/1997
Date of judgment: 25 April 2001
Petitioner / Appellant: BHARAT PETROLEUM CORPORATION LTD
Respondent: MUMBAI SHRAMIK SANGHA AND ORS
Neutral citation: 2001 INSC 224
SCR citation: [2001] 3 S.C.R. 208
Bench: S.P. BHARUCHA, V.N. KHARE, N. SANTOSH HEGDE, Y.K. SABHARWAL, SHIVARAJ V. PATIL
CNR: ESCR010002342001

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A BHARAT PETROLEUM CORPORATION LTD.

MUMBAI SHRAMIK SANGHA AND ORS . ....

APRIL 25, 2001

B [S.P. BHARUCHA, V.N. KHARE, N. SANTOSH HEGDE, Y.K.

SABHARWAL AND SHIVARAJ V. PATIL, JJ.]

*Gammon (India) Ltd. v. Union of India, [1974] 3 SCR 665, referred D to.

CIVIL APPELLATE JURISDICTION: Civil Appeal No. 6213 of 1997.

From the Judgment and Order dated 30/31.1.97 and 21.2.97 of the Bombay E High Court in W.P. No. 436of1991.

T.R. Andharujina, P.N. Misra, P.H. Parekh, Sameer Parekh, Birender Saraf, Ms. Indoo P. Verma, Colin Gonsalves, Bharat Sangal, Ms. Aparna Bhat, Ms. Asha Pathak, Biswajit S., C.K. Ganguli, Brij Bhushan, K.C. Kaushik and C. Radhakrishna for Arvind Kr. Sharma for the appearing parties.

The following Order of the Court was delivered :

ORDER

The order of reference to a Constitution Bench is dated 13th January, G 1998. Two learned judges of this Court have doubted the correctness of the scope attributed to Section 10 of the Contract Labour (Regulation and Abolition) Act, 1970 in the Constitution Bench judgment in Gammon (India)

Ltd. v. Union of India, [1974] 3 SCR 665. This is how the matter comes before us.

H We are of the view that a decision of a Constitution Bench of this Court 208 <.

BHARAT PETROLEUM CORPN. LTD. v. MUMBAI SHRAMIK SANGHA 209 binds a bench of two learned judges of this Court and that judicial discipline A obliges them to follow it, regardless of their doubts about its correctness. At the most, they could have ordered that the matter be heard by a Bench of three learned judges.

Accordingly, this matter shall now be heard and decided by a Bench of two learned judges. B T.N.A. Matter is still pending.