SYED AHMAD Vs. PRESIDING OFFICER, LABOUR COURT

JUDGEMENT

(1.) THE appellant was in the services of the respondent M/s. Tata Engineering and Locomotive Co. Ltd., Jamshedpur (herein after referred to as TELCO for short).

(2.) AT the instance of the appellant, a reference was made by appropriate Govt., registered as Reference Case No. 2/89. The learned Presiding Officer, Labour Court, Jamshedpur vide impugned award dated 20th January, 1996 held that the punishment was disproportionate and a lessor punishment would have meet the ends of justice.

(3.) ACCORDINGLY , the award was passed in favour of appellant. He was reinstated with continuity of service, but without any back wages. The period of absence from duty was ordered to be treated as leave of the kind due and in case no leave is due. as leave without pay.