( 1 ) IN the writ petition the following prayer has been made.

"in the circumstances, it is most respectfully prayed, this Hon ble Court shall be pleased to issue a Writ in the nature of a writ of Certiorari or any other writ, order or direction, quashing the impugned Award dated 4/8/1989 and the Order dated 30/8/1993 passed by the Respondent No. 1 in L. C. I. D. No. 349 of 1987 with a direction to the Respondent No. 1 to hear the matter afresh and then decide the same or call for the records of the case and decide the same and or pass such other or further order or orders as may be deem fit and proper. "

( 2 ) A reading of the prayer reveals that when the writ petition was filed the petitioner had not sought the relief of the case being remanded to the Labour Court. This was obviously for the reason that it was not in the contemplation of the parties that the Labour Court was not rendered functus officio thirty days after the passing of the Award as this was the then prevailing judicial opinion on this point. The Hon ble supreme Court has now clarified by its Order dated 1/12/2000 passed in Civil Appeal no. 7092/2000 entitled Anil Sood v. Presiding Officer, Labour Cou