JUDGMENT

Per Gajendragadkar, J.:-This appeal by special leave arises out of an industrial dispute between the appellant, the Pure Drinks (Private), Ltd., and Its employee Kirat Singh Maungatt (represented by the respondent union). The dispute was with regard to the order of discharge by which the services of the employee were terminated by the appellant. The tribunal which tried this dispute has held that the termination was unauthorized and illegal and it has accordingly directed the appellant to reinstate the employee within two weeks from the date when the award becomes enforceable. The tribunal has also passed consequential orders in respect of the said reinstatement. It is against this order that the appellant has come to this Court with special leave.

The material facts leading up to the dispute are very few and they can be conveniently stated at the outset very briefly. Kirat Singh, the employee, has been working with the appellant as a route salesman since October 1952. The appellant is a private limited company engaged in the manufacture and supply of aerated water. On 28 March 1958, the employee signed the cash memo books and recorded his signature in the log-book as usual.