Allahabad High Court

RAM PAL SINGHversusPRESIDING OFFICER/ DEPUTY GENERAL MANAGER BAJAJ ECO TECH PRODUCTS LTD AND ANOTHER

Decided: 22 September 2026
Bench: SAURABH SHYAM SHAMSHERY

Holding

The Court ordered the respondent to consider the pending Section 2-A application expeditiously, preferably within three months.

Summary

The petitioner, a workman, filed a writ petition seeking the court's intervention to expedite an application filed under Section 2-A of the Industrial Disputes Act, 1947 for conciliation and reference of an industrial dispute that has been pending for over eight years. The High Court examined the petition and noted that the post of the prescribed officer, previously vacant, has now been filled. The Court directed the respondent, the Presiding Officer/Deputy General Manager of Bajaj Eco Tech Products Ltd, to consider the pending application expeditiously, preferably within three months. No substantive merits of the dispute were adjudicated; the focus was on procedural acceleration. Consequently, the writ petition was disposed of with the said direction.

Issues considered

Whether the High Court should direct the respondent to expedite the consideration of an application under Section 2-A of the Industrial Disputes Act, 1947 pending for more than eight years

Legislation cited

Industrial Disputes Act, 1947 — s. 2-A

Subjects

Industrial Dispute
Conciliation
Section 2-A
Writ Petition
Expeditious Disposal

Judgment

                                              HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT ALLAHABAD
                                                                WRIT - C No. - 38471 of 2026

                                    Ram Pal Singh
                                                                                                      .....Petitioner(s)
                                                                          Versus

                                    Presiding Officer/ Deputy General Manager Bajaj
                                    Eco Tech Products Ltd And Another                             .....Respondent(s)

                                    Counsel for Petitioner(s)                      :   Ganga Prasad Gupta
                                    Counsel for Respondent(s)                      :   C.S.C.

                                    Court No. - 36
                                                HON'BLE SAURABH SHYAM SHAMSHERY, J.

                                    1. Heard Sri Ganga Prasad Gupta, learned counsel for the petitioner and learned

                                    Standing Counsel for State-Respondents.


                                    2. Petitioner is a Workman and has filed an application under Section 2-A of

                                    Industrial Disputes Act, 1947 for conciliation and for a reference of an

                                    industrial dispute which is pending for last more than 8 years.


                                    3. Court finds that this writ petition can be disposed of and is accordingly

                                    disposed of with a direction that concerned respondent will consider the said

                                    application expeditiously.


                                    4. According to Order Sheet, post was vacant, however, it has been informed

                                    that now Prescribed Officer has been appointed, therefore, the pending

                                    application be decided in accordance with law expeditiously, preferably within

                                    a period of three months.



                                                                                   (Saurabh Shyam Shamshery,J.)
                                    September 23, 2026
                                    AK




Digitally signed by :-
AWADESH KUMAR
High Court of Judicature at Allahabad

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