This appeal by special leave is directed against the judgment of a Division Bench of the High Court of Punjab and Haryana dismissing a Letters Patent appeal against tne judgment of a learned Single Judge allowing a writ petition filed by the Municipal Committee, Mansa and quashing an award made in favor of the appellant Kanshi Ram Verma by the Labour Court, Patiala.
The Labour Court found that the appellant had produced a certificate regarding his qualifications before the Executive Officer, and the companyy of it filed by him had been companypared with the original document by a Clerk and had been signed by the Executive Officer in token of his having received the certificate.
Accordingly, an industrial dispute was referred to the Labour Court, Patiala, and on 4th August, 1977 the Labour Court made an award that the termination was illegal and it directed the reinstatement of the appellant and payment of Rs.
In the High Court, the learned Single Judge held that the appellant had number furnished a certificate of a recognised University that he had passed a Diploma Examination and an affidavit that he was number a dismissed employee, and said that, therefore, the termination of his services was proper and valid.
He was required to furnish a certificate from a recognized University that he had passed a Diploma examination in Engineering and also an affidavit that he was number a dismissed employee.
About the same time the appellant also filed a writ petition companytending that he was entitled to full back wages.
His Letters Patent appeal was dismissed by a Division Bench on 20th May, 1980.
The Municipal Committee challenged the award in a writ petition before the High Court.
On the point whether he was a dismissed employee, he was permitted to file an unattested declaration by the Executive Officer that he had on his own initiative given up his earlier employment in the Military department and the Jalkal Municipal Committee.
The Municipal Committee alleges that he did number file the requisite certificate and affidavit and companysequently his services were terminated.
He allowed the writ petition filed by the Municipal Committee and quashed the award.
Both the writ petitions were disposed of by a learned Single Judge by a judgment dated 16th November, 1979.
A Letters Patent appeal by the appellant was dismissed summarily by a Division Bench of the High Court.
The appellant was appointed by the Municipal Committe, Mansa to the post of Sectional Officer on a temporary basis.
In the result, he set aside the award of of the Labour Court.
The appellant entered upon his duties on 4th September, 1975.
Accordingly, it made an award in the terms mentioned earlier.
The writ Petition by the appellant was dismissed.
The appellant disputed the validity of the termination of his services.
In regard to the Matriculation certificate, he stated that it had been lost.
200/ as companypensation.
