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Petitioner: MISRI KHAN VS Respondent: PUNJAB ROAD TRANSPORT BOARD THROUGH DISTRICT JUDGMENT
Court Name: Labour Appellate Tribunal Judge(s): Sardar Muhammad Abdul Ghafoor Khan Lodhi Title:MISRI KHAN vs PUNJAB ROAD TRANSPORT BOARD THROUGH DISTRICT
JUDGMENT
Reported As: 1984 PLC 452 Result: Appeal dismissed Judgment JUDGMENT ' The appeal captioned above arises from the decision, dated 22nd May, 1983 recorded by the learned Presiding Officer, Punjab Labour Court No, 6, Rawalpindi, dismissing the grievance petition of the appellant for his re-instatement in service. 2. The appellant was terminated for the reason that his conductor licence had been cancelled. On merits the appellant has a good case but the difficulty is that the grievance notice was time- barred. He was terminated on 23rd February, 1978 but he gave grievance notice, on 24th April, 1982. The ground for condonation is illeness. No medical certificate for proving illness of four years was produced. The plea of illness is, therefore, ex facie false. Learned counsel for the appellant has cited 1978 PLC 165 and 1975 PLC 175 but they being the rulings of Labour Courts cannot be followed. The provisions of section 25-A with regard to grievance notice are mandatory and without a legal notice the very grievance petition is not competent and the Court has no jurisdiction. So, there is no force in the arguments that where the order is void, no question of limitation arises. 3. As a result of what has been said above, the appeal is dismissed.