VENCO RESEARCH AND BREEDING FARM PRIVATE LIMITED vs RASHTRIYA SHRAMIK AGHADI AND ORS

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WP-A.1418.2015.doc Ajay IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT BOMBAY CIVIL APPELLATE JURISDICTION WRIT PETITION NO. 1418 OF 2015 Venco Research and Breeding Farm Private Limited .. Petitioner Versus Rashtriya Shramik Aghadi & Ors. .. Respondents ....................  Mr. J.P. Cama, Senior Advocate a/w Varun Rajiv Joshi & Mr. Chetan Alai, Advocate for Petitioner.  Mrs. Smita Gaidhani a/w Dr. Rohini S. Pandit & Ms. Mrudula Gargale Advocates for Respondent No.1  Mr. Hamid Mulla, AGP for State ......…........... CORAM : MILIND N. JADHAV, J. Reserved on : NOVEMBER 24, 2025. Pronounced on : DECEMBER 01, 2025 JUDGMENT: 1. Heard Mr Cama, learned Advocate for Petitioners; Mrs. Gaidhani learned Advocate for Respondent No.1 and Mr. Mulla, AGP for State. 2. Present Petition is filed challenging impugned Award dated 22.04.2014 passed by the Labour Court in Reference (IDA) No.94 of 2005. Impugned Award is appended at Exhibit “Y’ page 284 of Petition. 3. Briefly stated, Petitioner is a Company duly incorporated under the Companies Act, 1956 and runs several poultry farms engaged in breeding, growing and hatching of eggs. Petitioner engaged 116 workmen in its farm at Village Sangavi, District Satara whose Corrected / Modified Judgment as per speaking to minutes of order dated 09.12.2025. 1 of 27 WP-A.1418.2015.doc contracts were governed under the Model Standing Order (for short “Standing Order”) framed under Industrial Disputes Act, 1947 (for short “ID Act”) to conduct aforementioned activities. Respondent No. 1 – Union espouses the cause of workmen in the present lis. 3.1. On and from 09.08.2004, 91 workmen of Petitioner – Company and another sister company being M/s Venkys (India) Pvt. Limited conducted and continued a hunger strike at Venkateshwar House, Pune keeping them absent fr