( 1 ) THE petitioner-workman appears as party in person and has filed this petition challenging the legality and validity of the order passed by the Industrial Court in Appeal (IC) No. 102/91 dated 27/03/1992 by which the Industrial Court set aside the order passed by the Labour Court as regards the payment of backwages and the payment of cost of Rs. 500. 00. The period for which the backwages denied are between November 15 198 8/02/1993 and even according to the respondent-Mill Company the total amount payable to the workman would come to Rs. 91 816. 91 ps. (Ninety-one thousand eight hundred sixteen and paise ninety-one only ). (This figure has been submitted by the learned Counsel for the respondent-Mill Company at the time of hearing of the petition. According to the workman the amount would be more and it would be exceeding Rs. one lac. In short the figure is not admitted by the petitioner workman.)

( 2 ) THE petitioner-workman joined the services of the respondent-Mill Company as doffer in the year 1972. He was promoted as reliever in the year 1975 and since then he was working in Ring frame department as permanent workman in second shift of the Mill Company. He