O R D E R

The petitioner has filed the above writ petition praying for Certiorarified Mandamus to call for all the connected and relevant records relating to the Award dated 30.11.2007 passed by the Presiding Officer Ist Additional Labour Court, Chennai, the second respondent herein in I.D.No.60 of 2000 and quash the same and direct the first respondent to reinstate the petitioner in service with backwages together with all attendant benefits.

2. The learned counsel for the petitioner submitted that the petitioner was appointed on 05.05.1980 as Staff van driver by the first respondent Corporation and he was promoted as a Heavy Vehicle Driver on 02.01.1982. From 1982 onwards, he was working as a driver of the Tourist buses operated by the first respondent Corporation in various tours organised by the Corporation. The Corporation was arranging tours throughout South India and he had been discharging his duties as a tourist driver to the satisfaction of the tourists who travelled in the bus.

(ii) The petitioner was given duty to drive the Tourist Bus Luxury Coach TSE 8687 for five days Leave Travel Concession tour from 20.12.1992 to 24.12.1992, organised by the Corporation. It is a conce