GUJARAT STATE ROAD TRANSPORT COPORATION Vs. BM PRAJAPATI

JUDGEMENT

(1.) By way of this petition, the petitioner has prayed to quash and set aside the impugned award dated 05.02.2003 passed by the Industrial Tribunal, in Reference [IT] No. 158 of 1998, whereby the Tribunal has directed the petitioner Corporation to reinstate the respondent workman in service and the intervening period be treated as leave without wages.

(2.) The short facts of the case are that the respondent workman at the relevant time was working as Conductor with the petitioner Corporation. The allegation against the respondent workman is that while discharging his duties he has committed certain financial irregularities. After following due procedure, the disciplinary authority of the petitioner Corporation dismissed the respondent from service. The first appeal preferred by the respondent against the order of the disciplinary authority came to be rejected. In the second appeal preferred by the respondent workman, the appellate authority has imposed penalty of placing him at basic pay scale and the period between 22.07.1994 to 06.06.1996 was treated as leave without pay. Against the said action, the respondent workman raised a dispute by way of Reference [IT] No. 158 of 1998, which was allowed, by way of the impugned award. Hence, this petition.

(3.) This Court on 22.06.2004, had passed the following order :- RULE. Ad-interim relief I terms of para 5[c]. Notice as to interim relief returnable on 20.07.2004. 3. The aforesaid order was confirmed by this Court on 10.08.2004.