REGISTRATION OF THE ALL PAKISTAN RAILWAY EMPLOYEES Versus PEOPLES UNION 1N RE

ORDER

Statement of the applicant recorded and arguments heard.

2. This is an application for restoration of the Registration of All Pakistan Railway Employees Peoples Union by applicant Iqbal Ali Zaidi. This application was presented personally before the Registrar of this Commission by the applicant on 19-6-1989.

3. The application states that the union stood registered vide registration No. 4/75 of this Commission. The Registration appears to have been cancelled without notice as no notice prior to cancellation was given. He asserts that the trade union remained alive and active and the documents accompanying the present application bear testimony to that effect. He has however enclosed the photo copies of his own (personal) statements to the police concerning investigation whether he and others had planned to explode bombs if the decision of the High Court in case of Mr. Zulfqar Ali Bhutto, Chairman Peoples Party was not delivered in I his favour. One is photocopy of a statement in Police Station Mughalpura, Lahore dated 30-1-1979. Another is the Report No. 21 on Police Form 25-54(2) titled report zimni undroni dated 31-1-1979. Then there are photo copies of statements recorded by various police officials in Case No. 35/89, dated 31-1-1979, 6-3-1979, 29-1-1979, 29-1-1979 and 24-1-1979. Then there are photostat copies of news papers cuttings of Nawa-i-Waqat, Imroz, Musawat. All these documents are marked `A' to `M' and all of them are the photostat copies whose originals have not been produced. None of them have anything to do with the All Pakistan Railway Employees Peoples Union.

4. Statement of the applicant was recorded on 18-9-1989. He admits that the union was cancelled on 15-12-1976, but he came to know about it "perhaps in year 1984." As document (marked 1) shows the applicant was acquitted by the Military Court on or about 22nd July,1980, and the case itself was started on 23-1-1979. Thereafter, from 22-7-1980 to 18-6-1989 he as General Secretary of the union did not file any application for restoration of registration of his union.

5. The I.R.O. 1969 envisages only an appeal against the order of Registrar cancelling the registration of a trade union under section 22-D of the I.R.O., 1969 before the Full Bench of the Commission within a period of 30 days. There is no provision in the LR.O., 1969 for restoration of registration of a trade union cancelled by the Registrar. This application before this Bench is therefore barred by law, and is thus rejected under Order 7, Rule 11(d), C.P.C.

M.Y.H./149/NIRC Application rejected.