Apsrtc v. Sri C.Kistaiah

HON'BLE SRI JUSTICE ABHINAND KUMAR SHAVILI WRIT PETITION No. 21215 of 2002 ORDER:

This writ petition is filed seeking to issue a writ of certiorari calling for the record relating to and connected with I.D.No.60 of 2000 on the file of the 2nd respondent-Labour Court and quash the award dated 15.04.2002 passed therein holding it as illegal and arbitrary.

Heard learned standing counsel for the petitioner corporation and learned counsel for the 1st respondent.

It has been contended by the petitioner corporation that the 1st respondent workman was appointed as Conductor in the corporation in the year 1985. While he was discharging his duties, the checking officials of the corporation conducted a check and found that he has indulged in cash and ticket irregularities. The said act of the 1st respondent was construed as misconduct and after initiating disciplinary proceedings and after conducting regular enquiry and for the proven misconduct, the disciplinary authority had removed him from service vide orders dated 20.12.1998. Questioning the same, the 1st respondent unsuccessfully preferred an appeal and thereafter raised an industrial dispute in I.D.No.60 of 2000 on the file of the 2nd respondent-Labour Court under Section 2-A(2) of the Industrial Disputes Act. The Labour Court without properly appreciating any of the contentions raised by the corporation, passed an award dated 15.04.2002 setting aside the order of removal and directing the

corporation to reinstate the 1st respondent into service with continuity of service and attendant benefits, but without back wages. Further, the Labour Court imposed punishment of stoppage of three annual increments with cumulative effect. Aggrieved thereby, the present writ petition is filed.

Learned counsel for the 1st respondent has contended that the Labour Court has rightly passed the award in favour of the 1st respondent and, therefore, no interference is called for. This Court, having considered the submissions made by the learned counsel for the parties, is of the considered view that the Labour Court has rightly passed the award in favour of the 1st respondent. Further, no illegality or irregularity is pointed out by the learned standing counsel for the petitioner corporation in the award passed by the Labour Court. Unless and until any illegality or irregularity is pointed out by the learned standing counsel for the petitioner corporation in the award passed by the Labour Court, this Court cannot interfere with the award. There are no merits in the writ petition.

Therefore, the writ petition is dismissed. Consequently, miscellaneous petitions, if any, pending in the writ petition shall stand closed. No order as to costs.

______________________________ ABHINAND KUMAR SHAVILI, J 27th November, 2018 cbs

HON'BLE SRI JUSTICE ABHINAND KUMAR SHAVILI Writ Petition No.21215 of 2002 (dismissed) 27th November, 2018 cbs