By consent of both sides the writ petition is taken up for final disposal.

2. Prayer in the writ petition is to quash the award of the Labour Court in I.D.No.32 of 1999 on the file of the first respondent/Labour Court, Trichy, declining the relief of reinstatement with backwages and continuity of service.

3. The brief facts necessary for disposal of this writ petition are as follows:

.(a) The petitioner was appointed as Conductor in the second respondent Transport Corporation in the year 1981 and at that time the second respondent Corporation was called Cholan Roadways Corporation, Kumbakonam. After bifurcation of the Corporation, petitioner opted to serve in the then Dheeran Chinnamalai Transport Corporation, Trichy.

.(b) On 4. 1992, when the petitioner was on his way to attend to his duty, travelled in a Transport Corporation Bus from his native place Nedungoor to DCTC Depot, Tiruchirapalli, Mofussil-III. The said bus met with an accident in a head on collision with a on-coming lorry, pursuant to which the petitioner sustained grievous injuries on his right shoulder and his right hand was amputated above the forearm joint.

(c) According to the petitioner, while und