1. By the impugned award (Ext P3) dated 17-6-1978 the 4th respondent-Tribunal found that the two workers represented by the 1st respondent-Union were denied employment by the petitioner contrary to the provisions of the Kerala Agricultural workers Act, 1974 (Act 18 of 1974). Witnesses were examined on both sides. Documents also were produced on both sides. The Tribunal on a consideration of the entire evidence came to the conclusion that the workers in question had been employed by the petitioner in the previous season in the land belonging to him and that he was therefore in law liable to offer them employment in preference to others. The Tribunal placed much reliance upon the register maintained by the Panchayat showing that the workers in question had been employed by the Petitioner for a considerable period of time. This register has been maintained by the Panchayat in Form 7 in terms of R.20 of the Kerala Agricultural Workers Rules, 1975. As against this register, the petitioner produced the register maintained by him purportedly in Form 8 in terms of R.23 of the Kerala Agricultural Workers Rules. But that register was not accepted as reliable evidence for the reas