JUDGMENT :

SENTHILKUMAR RAMAMOORTHY, J.:— By this intra-court appeal, the order dated 16.08.2019 in W.P. No. 8824 of 2011 is impugned. The said writ petition was filed by the second Respondent (the Management) to quash the order dated 13.10.2010 of the first Respondent/Labour Court in I.D. No. 104 of 1996. The workman is the Appellant herein. By the impugned order, the learned single Judge allowed the writ petition of the Management and thereby set aside the grant of back wages, continuity of service and attendant benefits, but directed the second Respondent/Management to pay a sum of Rs. 2 lakhs to the Appellant within a period of twelve weeks from the date of receipt of a copy of the order.

2. The Appellant was appointed as a trainee in the machine shop of the second Respondent on 01.09.1968. Upon completion of training, he was put on probation for six months as a Junior Operator Grade-B with effect from 01.09.1969. Upon completion of such probation, by order dated 05.09.1969, he was absorbed as a Junior Operator Grade - B with effect from 01.09.1969. Subsequently, by order dated 20.10.1973, he was promoted as an Operator C&T in Grade C. In the year 1975, it appears that there was