SHIV NARAYAN DHINGRA, J.

( 1 ) BY this writ petition, the petitioner has challenged the validity of award dated 5th September, 2006 passed by Labour Court XXI, Karkardooma, Delhi whereby the reference was answered against the petitioner.

( 2 ) BRIEF facts are that the petitioner was working as a conductor with the respondent. On 9th September, 1993 he was on duty at bus No. 9867 from Delhi to sharanpur. His bus was checked at 6. 20 PM at Jalalabad by the ATIs Sohan Lal, zile Singh and Balbir Singh. Two passengers were found getting down the bus without tickets. They were held up for being without tickets. They told that they had paid Rs. 20/- to the conductor for issuance of tickets. The conductor had taken the fare but not issued tickets. The conductor was confronted with the passengers and the conductor admitted his guilt and gave 2 unpunched tickets to the ticket checkers. The ticket checkers recorded the statements of passengers and obtained the signature of conductor. They boarded the bus and in the running bus, they prepared challan and gave it to conductor. They also checked rest of the passengers who were found having tickets. A charge sheet was issued to the conductor on