ORDER :

1. The petitioner is before this Court seeking for the following reliefs:

a. Issue a Writ in the nature of certiorari quashing the Order/Award dated 06-08-2011 in I.D. Application (LCM) No.15/1997 on the file of Labour Court, Mangalore i.e. Annexure-A in rejecting the said ID Application on the preliminary issue of territorial jurisdiction and further also be pleased to quash the Order dated 17.2.2011 passed on I.A. dated 08-02-2010/09-02-2010 filed by the Respondent in the said ID Application i.e., Annexure-B;

b. For such other and further relief/s as this Hon’ble Court deem fit to grant under the circumstance of the case including the cost of this Writ Petition.

2. The dispute raised by the petitioner by filing a claim petition in I.D. No.15/1997 before the Labour Court, Mangalore came to be dismissed on a finding on the preliminary issue that it did not have territorial jurisdiction. It is the said order which is under challenge in the present petition.

3. Sri.Sarat Chandra Bijai, learned counsel for the petitioner would submit that,

3.1. The petitioner was engaged as a ‘Medical Representative’ of respondent-employer and was stationed in Shimoga. He refers to the dismissal