K.M. Thaker, J.

1. Heard learned advocates for petitioner and respondent. In present petition, the petitioner has challenged award dated 28.11.2006 passed by learned Labour Court at Gandhidham (Kachchh) in Reference (LCR) No. 29 of 2003, whereby learned Labour Court rejected the Reference. Feeling aggrieved by the said decision and award, the petitioner i.e. the original claimant has taken up present petition.

2. So far as factual background is concerned, it has emerged from the material available on record of this petition and from submissions by learned advocates that the claimant raised industrial dispute with the allegation that the employer illegally terminated his service by oral order/instruction on 04.02.2001 and that despite the fact that he had worked continuously and regularly from December, 1992 to February, 2001, the employer discontinued his service without complying provisions prescribed by law and in violation of principles of natural justice.

3. Appropriate government referred the dispute for adjudication. The dispute was registered in Reference (LCR) No. 29 of 2003. In his statement of claim, the claimant alleged that he was in service with opponent Company a