JUDGMENT AND ORDER :

K.M. Thaker, J.

Heard Mr. Rawal, learned advocate for the petitioner and Mrs. V.D. Nanavati, learned advocate for respondent.

2. The petitioner State Road Transport Corporation has challenged award dated 20.8.2015 passed by learned Labour Court at Jamnagar in Reference (T) No. 426/1992 whereby the learned Labour Court directed present petitioner to reinstate the respondent on his original post with continuity of service but without back-wages.

3. So far as factual background is concerned, it has emerged from the record that at the relevant time the claimant was in service with present petitioner.

3.1 When present petitioner terminated service of present respondent on ground of misconduct, he raised industrial dispute with the allegation that the opponent Corporation arbitrarily and illegally terminated his service and therefore he should be reinstated.

3.2 Appropriate government referred the dispute for adjudication to the learned Labour Court at Jamnagar. The learned Labour Court registered the dispute as Reference (T) No. 426 of 1992.

3.3 In his statement of claim, the claimant alleged that he joined the service with opponent corporation in 1977 and he worked as con

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