Judgment

JAGANMOHAN REDDY, J.:-This appeal by special leave challenges the award of the Special Labour Court, Ahmedabad, by which the respondent an employee of the appellant Corporation was directed to be reinstated and paid as compensation half the wages including dearness allowance from the date of his discharge till the date of his reinstatement in service. The respondent was appointed by the appellant on June 13, 1967 as a temporary Senior Assistant on conditions set out in the letter dated June 13, 1967. The respondent s services continued to be temporary as no order of appointing him on probation was passed, and on the ate when his services were terminated by an order dated January 6, 1971, he was in temporary service.

2. According to the respondent s statement of claim in September-October 1970 he was not keeping good health, none-the-less he used to attend to his duties. However, in October 1970 his health deteriorated further and he went on sick leave for five days from October 14 to October 18, 1970. Thereafter though he joined and worked he was under treatment. Then all of a sudden his health took a turn for the worse and after the medical examination by his physician he w