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Petitioner: ABDUL WAHEED VS Respondent: HABIB BANK Ltd.
Court Name: Labour Appellate Tribunal Judge(s): Sardar Muhammad Abdul Ghafoor Khan Lodhi Title: ABDUL WAHEED vs HABIB BANK Ltd. Case No.: Appeal No, RI-357 of 1984 Date of Judgment:1984-11-06 Reported As: 1985 PLC 510 Result: Appeal returned
JUDGMENT
JUDGMENT ' The decision dated 25-4-1984 recorded by the learned Presiding Officer, Labour Court, Islamabad has been challenged in this appeal. 2. Since Islamabad is a Federal area and is not situated in the Punjab Province, this Tribunal has no jurisdiction to hear appeals arising from the decisions recorded by the Labour Court, Islamabad. The argument of the learned counsel for the appellant that the case was wrongly transferred from Punjab Labour Court No,6, Rawalpindi to Labour Court, Islamabad is without any force. This is immaterial if the case had initially been instituted in Labour Court, Rawalpindi. Since separate Court was established in Islamabad, the Labour Court, Rawalpindi ceased to have jurisdiction and there was no other alternative but to send the case to the learned Labour Court, Islamabad. If there had been a provision that pending cases would be heard and disposed A of by the Labour Court, Rawalpindi, of course the order of transfer would have been wrong. Even if for the sake of argument it be said that the case was wrongly transferred to the Labour Court, Islamabad, the decision could not be challenged before this Tribunal. 3. As a result, the memo. Of appeal is returned for presentation to the competent authority.