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Industrial and Commercial Employment (Standing Orders) Ordinance (VI of 1968)--- ----S.O. 15(3)---Punjab Industrial Relations Act (XIX of 2010), S.33---Termination of service---Grievance petition---Reinstatement---Services of the employee were terminated with immediate effect on the ground that his BCS degree was fake---Principal of the college concerned subsequently vide corrigendum regretted that earlier letter whereby degree of the employee was declared to be fake, did not reflect the actual facts; and that degree of the employee was not fake---Report submitted by Inspecting Officer, duly appointed by the employer bank to look into the matter of genuineness of degree of the employee, also confirmed that degree of the employee was correctly issued and was not fake---Employee, in circumstances, was rightly reinstated in service by the Labour Court with back benefits accepting his grievance petition. JUDGMENT ASAD MUNIR (CHAIRMAN).--- The respondent, Shahzib Naveed, was appointed by the Appellant Bank on 1-4-2005 as a Typist and confirmed as such on 3-8-2005 on the basis of his Bachelor of Computer Science (BCS) degree dated 13-10-2001, issued by the Government Jinnah Islamia College, Sialkot. About three years later, the Appellant Bank vide its letter dated 5-9-2008 promoted the respondent as an Officer in the Management Grade 12(MG-2) with effect from 1-9-2008. Through its letter dated 13-5-2009, the Appellant Bank sought the verification of the respondent's BCS degree dated 13-10-2001. In response, the Principal, Government Islamia College, Sialkot, vide his letter dated 18-5-2009 intimated the Appellant Bank that Government Islamia College, Sialkot, had not issued the respondent's BCS degree which was, therefore, "a fake/bogus document". Thereafter, the Appellant Bank vide letter dated 27-5-2009 terminated the services of the respondent with immediate effect on the ground that Government Jinnah Islamia College, Sialkot, had declared his BCS degree as fake. Through his letter dated 3-6-2009, the respondent complained to the Principal, Government Islamia College, Sialkot and requested him to verify his BCS degree as genuine and accordingly inform the…

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