The Order of the Court was as follows :

The petitioner Pandiyan Roadways Corporation filed this writ petition challenging the award of the Labour Court, Madurai dated 15-12-1992 in so far as it pertains to the order of reinstatement granted by the Labour Court, though, it had found that the respondent V. Kasi was guilty of having misappropriated the corporations amount.

The factual panorama is somewhat like this. Admittedly, the respondent V. Kasi was working in the petitioner Corporation for 16 years. He was working as a Conductor and was operating the bus bearing Regn. No. TCP 4237 on Erode to Devakottai and Madurai route. On 15-2-1989 while the said bus was proceeding towards Madurai, the Checking Inspector was checking the bus on the Devakottai Road and when they got into the bus in which the respondent was the Conductor for the purpose of checking, they found that the respondent was attempting to write the invoice hastily. The said invoice was snatched by the Checking Inspector in which the last entry appeared to be that the respondent had collected money for 3 1/2 tickets for the journey from Devakottai to Madurai. On the passengers being checked, it was found that