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Industrial dispute­ ----Domestic enquiry-Termination of Service for misconduct-Accused admitting allegation/charge in reply to charge-sheet-Termination with one month's notice without any inquiry, in circumstances, held, not exceptionable. 1970 P L C 359 ref Wasiullah Qureshi for Appellant. Memon Abdul Latif for Respondent. Date of hearing: 29th October 1977. DECISION The appellant Abdul Rehman son of Mohammad Ibrahim a former employee of Shaheen Cinema. Hyderabad. has preferred this appeal against the order of the Labour Court No. VI, Hyderabad upholding the respon­dent's notice to the appellant whereby they terminated his services with one month's notice with effect from the 8th April, 1976 and also allowed him one month's salary in lieu of notice. 2. The brief facts giving rise to this matter are that the appellant was employed by the Shaheen Cinema, respondent, as a Booking Clerk and it was his duty as he himself admitted in his cross-examination in the lower Court to deposit in the Bank on the next day the money collected by him on behalf of the Cinema. In this he failed and it appears that thus a total sum of Re. 2,290 that be had received under the beads of 'Show Tax' and `News Reel', which should have been deposited in the Bank, had not so been done. Accordingly the Cinema on 5.4-1976 served the appellant with a charge-sheet to this effect, to which he replied on 4-4-1976. His reply was found unacceptable by the Cinema authorities who accordingly, terminated his service on 8-4-1976, as mentioned above. 3. On behalf of the appellant his learned Representative, Mr. Wasiullah Qureshi Vehemently argued this appeal raising a number of points of law. He complained that no inquiry had been held period to the order of termination of service and that this was in violation of section 15(4) of the Standing Orders. He submitted that the employees at the Cinema numbered more than twenty and that the respondents had led no evidence to show precisely how many employees they had on their rolls. They had produced neither the attendance register nor the payment resister. He further relied an section 19 of West Pakistan Shops and Establishments Ordinance, 1969 submitting…

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