The management of Malaysian Airlines at Chennai has filed this Writ Petition, challenging the award of the Labour Court, seeking to call for the records on the file of the Presiding Officer, Principal Labour Court, Chennai, first respondent herein, relating to I.D.No.579 of 1993 and to quash the award, dated 30.01.2004, made therein.

.2. According to the petitioner, the second respondent/workman filed an application under Section 2 (A) of the Industrial Disputes Act, 1947, (hereinafter referred to as "the Act") before the Principal Labour Court, Chennai, (hereinafter referred to as "the Labour Court") in I.D.No.579 of 1993, claiming that he was employed as a Traffic Assistant with effect from 04.07.1987 and the said workman was stopped from work on 07.04.1993 without any notice or compensation and that his non-employment was not justified.

3. It is the further case of the petitioner that the Attendance Register, which is maintained in the usual course and which covers the period from 1989 to 1997 marked as Ex.M-1 shows that the second respondent has not signed in the register for even a single day and the evidence of M.W.1, the management witness, is that at the releva