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West Pakistan Industrial and Commercial Employment (Standing Orders) Ordinance (VI of 1968)- ---S.O. 15(3)(i)--Misconduct--"Neglect of duty"--Negligence or inefficiency--Bus Conductor--Neither realising fare nor issuing tickets to five passengers though bus travelled for five miles--Conductor, in circumstances, held, guilty of neglect of duty amounting to misconduct and not merely of negligence or inefficiency. Muhammad Iqbal Khokhar for Appellant. Muhammad Ikram for Respondent. Date of hearing: 5th April, 1986. JUDGMENT The decision, dated 20-3-1985 recorded by the learned Presiding Officer, Punjab Labour Court No. 1, Lahore has been challenged, whereby the respondent has been directed to be reinstated in service with back benefits. 2. The allegation against the respondent was that he neither recovered bus fare from five passengers, nor issued tickets to them. The respondent took up plea in answer to TT-40 that the passengers were students who neither had student cards nor were willing to purchase tickets. The prosecution witness did not accept this suggestion in cross-examination before the inquiry officer. None of the passengers or the driver was examined by the respondent in support of his plea that the without ticket five passengers were students. The respondent thus came…

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