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Punjab Local Government Ordinance (VI of 1979)--- ---- S. 3 (lix) --- Industrial Relations Ordinance (XXIII of 1969), S. 2 (viii)--­Election for special seat of "worker" in the Local Council --- Election petition filed against returned candidate and Recrimination petition filed by returned candidate against Election Petitioner, denied each other's status as "worker%-­Election petition and Recrimination petition, both were dismissed on the ground that neither of the petitioners was a "worker"---Expression "worker" as defined in S. 3 (lix), Punjab Local Government Ordinance defines expression "worker" to mean "worker" as defined in Industrial Relations Ordinance, 1969 including self-employed craftsmen like blacksmiths, carpenters, tailors and shoe-makers --- Occupation of petitioner was "butcher" and that of returned candidate a "cart driver"-"Butcher" and "cart driver" whether "workers" so as to file Election Petition and Recrimination Petition and whether their occupation required special skill, knowledge or training particularly manual skill --- To drive a cart hardly required any special' skill or training nor it involved any manual skill --- Cart driver being not a self-employed craftsman was not a "worker%--"Butcher" also could not be regarded to have a special skill and knowledge especially the skill and knowledge. of a manual art --- Election Tribunal thus had rightly dismissed Election Petition and Recrimination. Petition --- No interference in such finding was warranted. Malik Ghulam Abbas v. Malik Muhammad Mumtaz Khan and 2 others PLD 1980 Lah. 718; Muhammad Jamshed Ali and others v. Ghulam Mustafa and others 1983 C L C 209; Exford English Dictionary and Black's Law Dictionary ref. Sheikh Inayat Ullah v. Deputy Commissioner PLD 1980 Jour 48. rel. JUDGMENT This will dispose of Writ Petition No.4105 of 1992 by Lai Khan, petitioner and Writ Petition No.4135 of 1992 by Muhammad Abdullah, petitioner. 2. These are petitions under Article 199 of the Constitution; by them, the petitioners seek to have it declared that the judgment of the learned Election Tribunal, Sargodha dated 6-5-1992 was made without lawful authority and is of no legal effect. 3. The…

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