JUDGMENT

KULDIP SINGH, J. :— Jammu & Kashmir Industries Limited (hereinafter called company ) is a company registered under the Indian Companies Act, 1956 and is wholly owned and managed by the State of Jammu & Kashmir. Pyare Lal Sharma was employed by the company as Chemical Engineer. His services were terminated by the Managing Director of the company on June 14, 1983. Sharmas writ petition was allowed by a learned single Judge of the Jammu & Kashmir High Court. On appeal by the company the Letters Patent Bench upheld the judgment but denied backwages to Sharma. This is how these two appeals, one by the company and the other by Sharma, are before us.

2. We may briefly notice the necessary facts. Pyare Lal Sharma joined the company as Assistant Chemical Engineer on July 12, 1972. In 1974 he was sent to England as management trainee but he returned back without completing the training. Sharmas conflict with the company started in 1976 when he filed a suit against the company in Jammu & Kashmir High Court with various reliefs including a direction that he be again sent to England at companys expense. The suit was dismissed and further appeal to the Division Bench was also dismissed.