law: Payment of Wages Act, 1936
  22.
  
  Bar of suits
  No
  
  Court shall entertain any suit for the recovery of wages or of any deduction
  
  from wages in so far as the sum so claimed -
  (a)
  
  forms the subject of an application under section 15 which has been presented
  
  by the plaintiff and which is pending before the authority appointed under that
  
  section or of an appeal under section 17; or
  (b)
  
  has formed the subject of a direction under section 15 in favour of the
  
  plaintiff; or
  (c)
  
  has been adjudged in any proceeding under section 15 not to be owned to the
  
  plaintiff; or
  (d)
  
  could have been recovered by an application under section 15.