Interim application allotted for substituted service of interim order. Order permitted service by publication in local English and Marathi newspapers due to addressee not found.
Service on Respondent No.2 by publication in two local newspapers permitted.
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12 IA 1-20 in wp 7399-19.odt
IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT BOMBAY CIVIL APPELLATE JURISDICTION
INTERIM APPLICATION NO. 1 OF 2020
IN
WRIT PETITION NO. 7399 OF 2019
Umesh R. Rao & Ors.
….. Applicants
vs
The M/s. Standard Batteries Ltd. & Ors.….. Respondents
Jayeshkumar Gupte i/b S. S. Musale for the Applicants.
Y. D. Patil, AGP for Respondent No.3.
CORAM : S.C. GUPTE, J.
DATED : FEBRUARY 20, 2020
P.C. :
This interim application seeks an order of substituted
service. It is submitted that the petition could not be served on
Respondent No.2-union. The packet of service has come back with
remark “addressee not found”. It is submitted that the Registrar of
Trade Unions does not have the address of Respondent NO.2-union
in his record. The Applicants/Petitioners are permitted, in the
premises, to serve the petition on Respondent No.2 by publication of
a notice in two local newspapers, one in English and another in
Marathi, circulating in Mumbai. The returnable date to be
communicated as 23 March, 2020.
2.The interim application is disposed of accordingly.
( S.C. GUPTE, J. )
Laxmi Pg 1 of 1
Umesh R. Rao & Ors.
The M/s. Standard Batteries Ltd.
Respondent No.2-union
S.C. Gupte
As recorded by the court registry
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