1. The petitioner has come forward to challenge an Award passed by the first respondent Labour Court in I.D.No.230 of 1998 dated 23.02.2006 and after setting aside the same seeks for a direction to the second respondent to reinstate the petitioner in service with full back wages, continuity of service and other attendant benefits.

2. The writ petition was admitted on 03.08.2007. On notice from this Court, the second respondent has filed a counter affidavit dated Nil February 1999. The petitioner also filed written submissions together with certain list of authorities.

3. It is the case of the petitioner that he joined the second respondent as Typist cum Clerk in September 1977. During 1994, he claims to have joined the Addison Employees Progressive Union and took active part in the activities of the Union. The second respondent Management did not like the participation of the petitioner in the Union. The Assistant Manager one Clad Marshal Rajkumar warned the petitioner on several occasions about his Union activities. He also started putting pressure on the petitioner. On 29.07.1997, while he was working in the first shift from 7.00 am to 3.00 p.m, he had planned to go