, J.

1. The petitioner has filed the present writ petition for quashing the order dated December 1, 1999, passed by the Presiding Officer, central Government Industrial tribunal-cum-Labour Court, Chandigarh, the first respondent (for short "the Industrialtribunal"), whereby the application of the petitioner-workman under Sec.33-C (2) of the Industrial Disputes Act, 1947 (hereinafterreferred to as "the Act"), has been dismissed.

2. The question which is involved in the present case is whether the petitioner, who is a bank employee, would, in the facts and circumstances of this case be entitled to benefits other than wages last drawn by him on his reinstatement while stay granted in terms of section 17-B of the Act against his reinstatement by the Industrial Tribunal was operating in the writ petition filed by the second respondent-bank, which has also been ultimately allowed in the Letters Patent Appeal and the matter remitted to the Industrial tribunal for readjudication and also, when a similar claim though for different periods, stands declined by the Industrial Tribunal.

3. In order to appreciate the question involved, the brief facts of the case leading to the filing of