JUDGMENT :

N.V. Balasubramanian, J.—The writ petition W.P.No. 148 of 1991 is filed by the management and the writ petition W.P.No. 9966 of 1992 is filed by the workman/conductor. Both the writ petitions arise out of the same order passed by the Labour Court, Coimbatore, in I.D. No. 310 of 1986, dated August 28, 1990, and hence, both the writ petitions are dealt with together and the petitioner in W.P No. 148 of 1991 is hereinafter referred to as the management and the petitioner in W.P. No. 9966 of 1992 is hereinafter referred to as the conductor.

2. The workman was a conductor in the management Corporation and on April 12, 1985 he was assigned the duty of conductor of bus on the 22 Kilometre long Coonoor-Kotagiri route, departing at Coonoor bus stand at 6.45. A.M. and arriving at Kotagiri at 7.45 A.M. The bus was checked at about 7.10 A.M. at Sims Park, Coonoor, when the bus was on its way to Kotagiri from Coonoor. It seems that seven persons got down from the bus at that spot and the tickets of these persons were collected from them by the checking staff and it was found that one of the passengers was having a ticket of 70 paise intended for travelling from Coonoor to Vaidishola, a