P. A. CHOUDARY, J.

( 1 ) THIS is an appeal filed by the writ petitioner against a judgment of our learned brother Jeevan Reddy, J. The writ petition is filed by the management, Royal Laboratories, against an award of the Labour Court, hyderabad, made in l. D. No. 3 of 1974.

( 2 ) THE Royal Laboratories is a pharmaceutical firm manufacturing drugs. One Srihari Sahay, the contesting respondent to the above writ petition, was one of its employees. The said Sahay was engaged by the said Royal Laboratories to work as Optical Testor and Supervisor. On the basis of certain allegations of misconduct of violence and disorderly behaviour, viz. , habitual neglect of work and wilful damage to the property of the management, charges were laid against the said Sahay by the management on 7th August, 1972. On the denial of those charges by the employee, the Management conducted a domestic inquiry in which it was found that the charges were proved against the employee. On that basis, the services of the employee were terminated by an order of discharge simpliciter on 25th September, 1972. Challenging that order of termination of his services, the employee raised an industrial dispute in i. D. No. 3

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