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Pakistan Essential Services (Maintenance) Act (LIII of 1952)--- ----S. 7 (3) and Notification No. S. ~ R. O. 955 (l) /76 dated 25th Sep­tember, 1976-Karachi Electric Supply Company-Declared as Essential Service-Employees covered by Ordinance-Grievance petition against termination of service, held, rightly not entertained by Labour Court-Industrial Relations Ordinance (XXIII of 1969), Ss. 25-A & 38. K.F.S.C.v.N.I.R.C.PLD1982SCI13Iel, Sabihuddin Ahmed for Appellant. Date of hearing :18th August, '1982. DECISION The appellant, who was originally employed as telephone operator-­cum-clerk in the respondent corporation, was promoted to the post of Assistant Public Relations Officer. His services were terminated by letter, dated 13th February, 1982, which is said to have beer, received by the appellant on 16th February, 1982. Tue appellant challenged the said order through a grievance petition filed before the learned Fifth Labour Court but the same was rejected, relying on the decision of their Lordships of the Supreme Court in the case of K. E. S. C. v. N. I. R. C. (PLD 1982 S C113,), on the -ground that the provisions of the Pakistan Essential Services (Mainte­nance) Act, 1952, are applicable to the employees of the respondent corporation anal these employees cannot invoke the jurisdiction of the Labour Court in respect of termination of their services. Dissatisfied with the decision of the learned Labour Court the appellant has come up in appeal to this Tribunal. 2. The sole ground on which Mr. Sabihuddin Ahmed, the learned counsel of the appellant, has assailed the decision of the learned Labour Court is that subsection (3) of section 7 of the Pakistan Essential Services (Maintenance) Act, 1952, require° that a complaint under the said section for infringement of the…

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