PURDIL KHAN Versus CAST RE-ROLLING Co.

DECISION

This is an appeal against an award of the learned Presiding Officer of Sind Labour Court No. II, Karachi, dated August 18. Whereby the learned Labour Court dismissed the application of the appellant, filed under 0ecttion 25-A of the Industrial Relations Ordinance, 1969 (hereinafter called the Ordinance). The appellant was cmr~loycd as a coolie iii January 1971 and his services were terminated on 17 th November 1971 without any enquiry or shove-cause notice. On the other hand, Vie case of the respondent w.,s that the appellant was never in his employment.

2.The appellant has appeared in parson. He stated before me that if the' Proprietor of the Mill were to appear before this Labour Court and swear that hey was not in his employment, he will accept the same. This is a belated request He should have made this request before the learned Labour Court, who may have given an option to the respondent to accept the term offered by the appellant or to refuse the same. The appellant examined himself and one Mr. Moin On the other hand, the respondent produced Mr. Abdul Sattar, Manager of the Factory, and produced the Attendance Register commencing from January 1971 to December 1971. There is nothing on the record of this case to throw any suspicion on the Attendance Register produced by the respondent. The name of the appellant does not appear in the Attendance Register. The most significant fast is that the name of the witness Mfr. Main does appear in the Attendance: Register. Mr. Main also produced his Attendance Card. This circumstance suggasts that the Attendance Register is a genuine one. No ground has been made to set aside tile order of the B learned Labour Court.

3.For the reasons given above, the appeal is dismissed.