D. M. DHARMADHIKARI, J.

( 1 ) ). THIS Letters Patent Appeal by the employee of the Gujarat Electricity Board has been preferred against the order of the learned single Judge dated 29-2-2000 passed in Special Civil Application no. 546 of 1995 (reported in 2000 (2) GLR 1522), whereby the Award of reinstatement of the employee with 25% of back wages passed by the Labour court on 15-10-1994 has been set aside.

( 2 ) NECESSARY facts giving rise to the appeal are as under :- the respondent-Board, by an order issued on 30-7-1979, appointed the appellant on work charge establishment on the post of Helper and he joined the post on 6-8-1979. The appointment was for a period of 190 days and his services were terminated on 29-11-1979. The employee was then inducted as an Apprentice Lineman on 19-2-1981 and his services were informally terminated or discontinued on 27-11-1981 on the ground that the contract of apprenticeship sent to the Apprenticeship Adviser in accordance with Sec. 4 (5) of the Apprentices act, 1961 has not been registered. The employee then approached the Labour court under the provisions of the Industrial Disputes Act, stating that the informal termination of his service is c

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