ORDER :

Sri.Vilas Ranganath Datar., learned counsel for petitioner and Sri.Prashanth.B.K., learned counsel for respondent have appeared in person.

2. The parties are referred to as per the ranking before the Labour court.

3. The brief facts of the case are stated as under:

The petitioner was appointed as Assistant Painter on and from 01.07.2015. The petitioner is a Governing Council Member of the Industrial and General Workers Union.

The Respondent is an industrial establishment and is carrying on manufacture of automobile parts viz., precision forging, expertise machining and customized assemblies and is the main supplier of these automobile parts to M/s.Honda Motor cycle Company Ltd, based at Narasapura Industrial Area, Kolar, that the Industrial establishment of the Respondent is located in the allocated industrial site in the industrial estate of the Karnataka Industrial Areas Development Board at Malur. That the Respondent employer is employing more than 100 workmen.

It is stated that on 14.06.2017 the petitioner was placed under suspension pending domestic enquiry alleging slow production. That the petitioner states that a charge sheet cum show cause notice was issued to him on 24.