Kerala Court October 1956 Judgments

Paravur Coir Vyvasaya Sangham and ors. Vs. State of Travancore-cochIn ...

Court: Kerala

Reported in: (1957)ILLJ288Ker

K. Sankaran, J.1. The petitioners in O.P. No. 192 of 1954 on the file of this Court are the appellants. They are persons engaged in coir industry. Their complaint is against the notification Ex. B dated 19 November 1054 published toy Government in exercise of the power conferred by Sub-section (1)(a) of Section 3 of the Minimum Wages Act (Act XI of 1948) fixing the minimum wages payable to the workmen employed in the coir industry. The validity of this notification was impugned on several grounds and the petitioners prayed that the records may be called up and the notification quashed by the issue of a writ of certiorari. Of the several grounds raised in the petition, the only ground pressed at the time of the hearing of the petition, before the learned Judge who heard the opposite party was that the notification Ex. B having been issued beyond the time-limit fixed in the earlier notification Ex. A dated 26 September 1951 published in the Government Gazette dated 2 October 1951, is ill...