Section 34 of Industrial Disputes Act 1947

Cognizance of offences

It provides that no Court which does not fall under the authority of the appropriate authority shall take cognizance of any offence punishable under this act. Also, no Court inferior that to Metropolitan Magistrate or a Judicial Magistrate of the First Class shall try any offence punishable under this act. 

Illustration

No other Court which does not fall within the ambit of the appropriate Court shall take cognizance of any offence under this act. Thus, if suppose Chief Judicial Junior Division Court shall not take any cognizance of any offence committed under the act, as it is not the specified under the act. 

Case Law

TUBU ENTERPRISES LTD. V. LT. GOVERNOR OF DELHI,1994 LLR 169 (DEL) (DB).

It provided that under section 34 of the Act the complaint about an offence thereunder, except section 30, cannot be filed by a private individual under the authority of the appropriate Government. 

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