LexUNION OF INDIA ETC. versus THE UNITED PLANTERS ASSOCIATION OF SOUTHERN INDIA ETC. & ORS.
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A B C D E F G H 905 UNION OF INDIA ETC. v. THE UNITED PLANTERS ASSOCIATION OF SOUTHERN INDIA ETC. & ORS. (Transfer Petition (Civil) Nos. 884-895 of 2016) JULY 11, 2022 [DINESH MAHESHWARI AND VIKRAM NATH, JJ.] Constitution of India: Art. 139A – Transfer of certain matters – Matters pertaining to challenge to the Payment of Bonus (Amendment) Act, 2015 in different High Courts – Transfer of the matters sought in this Court or to one High Court – Held: As regards, the decision to transfer to this Court or to one High Court no hard and fast rule or any structured formula is provided nor appears desirable – Comprehensive view of all the facts and relevant surrounding factors is the best to exercise jurisdiction u/Art. 139A – In the scheme of the Act of 1965 and in relation to the questioned amendments, variance in some of the questions and some of the factual aspects is likely to occur because of the innate role of the appropriate Government-Central Government or State Government – Likelihood of divergence of views, looking to the framework of the statute itself, cannot be a ground for transfer – Equally, there appears no reason to transfer the matters to any one High Court; rather it appears just and proper that the petitions in the jurisdictional High Courts are decided with reference to their own factual background and the law applicable – Thus, prayer to transfer the pending writ petitions from the respective High Courts not called for, and is rejected and all the interim stay orders are vacated – Payment of Bonus Act, 1965 – Payment of Bonus (Amendment) Act, 2015. Union of India v. M/s Cummins Technologies India Pvt. Ltd. & Ors. Etc. Transfer Petition (Civil) Nos. 1481- 1482 of 2021; Institute of Chartered Accountants of India v. Southern Petrochemical Industries Corporation Limited and Anr. (2007) 15 SCC 649; Lunawat Construction Company v. Union of India & Anr. (2019) 5 SCC 467 – referred to. [2022] 6 S.C.R. 905 905 A B C D E F G H 906 SUPREME COURT REPORTS [2022] 6 S.C.R. Case Law Reference (2007) 15 SCC 649 referred to Para 7.2 (2019) 5 SCC 467 referred to Para 8 CIVIL ORIGINAL JURISDICTION: Transfer Petition (Civil) Nos. 884-895 of 2016. Petition under Article 139A (1) of the Constitution of India, 1950, read with Rule XL of the Supreme Court Rules, 2013 for transfer of Writ Petition (Civil) Nos.3025/2016 (C), 5272/2016 (L-MW), 5311/2016, 5944-5945/2016 (L-RES), 6658/2016, 6098/2016, 8995/2016, 3121 (W)/ 2016, 1765/2016, 2150/2016 and 6958/2016. With Transfer Petition (Civil) Nos. 683 of 2019, 1456-1461, 1473-1531 Of 2016, 590-598, 480-481, 760-789, 599-604, 2127-2135, 1263-1269, 1253-1255, 2425 Of 2017, 659, 856 1237, 1954 Of 2018 and 218 of 2019 K. M. Nataraj, ASG, Ms. Vimla Sinha, S. K. Gupta, Shailesh Madiyal, Saurabh Mishra, Digvijay Dam, Raghav Sharma, Amrish Kumar, Gurmeet Singh Makker, Mrs. Anil Katiyar, Advs. for the Petitioners. Abhay Prakash Sahay, AAG, Ms. Suruchii Aggarwal, Abhijit Chatterjee, Gopal Shankaranarayanan, K. Kasturi, Sr. Advs., Anant Kumar, Dharmendra Kumar Sinha, Ms. Sweta Sand, Siddharth Batra, Ms. Archna Yadav, Ms. Shivani Chawla, Chinmay Dubey, Vipin Kumar Jai, Rajiv Tyagi, Rohit Gupta, Rahul Tyagi, Gulshan Chawla, Sanjay Yadav, Lokesh Kumar Tyagi, Ms. Smriti Kumari, Ashiesh Kumar, Pankaj Bhagat, Dhruv Wahi, Paras Joshi, Manish Kumar Vikkey, Pankaj Kumar Mishra, Arun K. Sinha, E. R. Kumar, Ms. Swati Bhardwaj, Abhiram Naik, Ms. Tanya Chaudhary, Ms. Disha Sachdeva, Sameer Parekh, M/s Parekh & Co., S. Sukumaran, Anand Sukumar, Bhupesh Pathak, Ms. Meera Mathur, Rajesh Kumar Gautam, Anant Gautam, Nipun Sharma, Ravi Solanki, M/s Mitter & Mitter Co., Arjun Garg, Sarvesh Singh, Samir Ali Khan, Gunnam Venkateswara Rao, Akshay Amritanshu, Kartikey Singh, Ashutosh Jain, Ankit Kumar Lal, Sachin Gupta, Mrs. Rachna Gupta, Sunny Choudhary, Nikhil Jain, Arup Banerjee, Gagan Gupta, Ashok Kumar Jain, Pankaj Jain, Mrs. Meenakshi Jain, Bijoy Kumar Jain, Rajesh Kandari, Sachin Daga, Vikrant Singh Bais, Sridhar Potaraju, Ms. Shiwani Tushir, Aayush, Rajat Jariwal, S. Abhishek Iyer, Ms. Aayushi Khurana, M/s Khaitan & Co., Ankit Goel, Vineet Ranjan, Santanam Swaminadhan, A B C D E F G H 907 Hirendranath, Prakruti Golechha, Ms. Abhilasha Shrawat, Mrs. Aarthi Rajan, Prakash Ranjan Nayak, K. K. Mani, Ms. T. Archana, R. Anand Padmanabhan, Shashi Bhushan Kumar, Sohan Singh Rana, Mrs. Bindra Rana, Nihit Nagpal, Anuj Jhawar, M/s S. S. Rana & Co., Tuhin, Ms. Nandini Gore, Ms. Natasha Sahrawat, Ms. Neha Khandelwal,
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