K.L.Gosain, J.

1. This petition under Articles 226 and 227 of the Constitution of India brought by the Board of Trustees of "The Tribune Trust, Ambala", hereinafter called the Trustees, is directed against the award of the Industrial Tribunal, Punjab, Patiala, dated the 25th October, 1960, by which an order passed by the Board of Trustees in their meeting dated the 12th March, 1960, dismissing Mr. W.M. Agnani, Sub-Editor of the Tribune has been held to be unjustified and contrary to law and Mr. Agnani has been held "entitled to be reinstated with continuity of service and full back wages."

2. It is alleged by the petitioners that Mr. Agnani was employed in 1948 as a Sub-Editor in the establishment of the Tribune. Sometimes in September, 1957 it came to the notice of the Trustees that he was engaged in compiling a Trade Directory called "The Punjab Trade Guide and Whos Who" and after getting an explanation from him the Trustees in their meeting held on the 27th and 28th January, 1958, passed a resolution giving him an option either to proceed on leave for nine months without pay to enable him to finish his work on the directory or sever his connections with the publication o