IN THE HIGH COURT OF PUNJAB AND HARYANA AT CHANDIGARH Reserved on: 13.08.2025 Pronounced on:11.11.2025 Ramal Thapar ….Petitioner Versus Central Government Industrial Tribunal-cum-Labour Court-1, Chandigarh and others ….Respondents CORAM: HON'BLE MR. JUSTICE KULDEEP TIWARI Present: Mr. Rajiv Atma Ram, Senior Advocate, with Ms. Shreya Kaushik, Advocate, for the petitioner.

Mr. Dhiraj Chawla, Advocate, and Mr. Gaurav Goel, Advocate, for the respondent-Bank.

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KULDEEP TIWARI, J. (Oral)

1) The petitioner-workman, by filing instant writ petition, under Articles 226/227 of the Constitution of India prays for issuance of a writ of Certiorari, to quash the award dated 25.08.2010 (Annexure P-20), passed by the learned Industrial Tribunal- respondent No.1, vide which, reference was answered against him, and the order of dismissal passed by the respondent-Bank was upheld, on the ground that the same was passed, after following the principles of natural justice.

2) The factual matrix, in the backdrop of which the present petition has been instituted, are that the petitioner-workman had been employed with the respondent-Bharat Overseas Bank, at Ludhiana Branch, as Clerk-cum-Cashier, on 21.02.1979