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Industrial dispute ----Dismissal from service---Employee was dismissed from service after holding enquiry against him on ground of misconduct---Allegation against employee was that he being the Secretary of a Union which was not C.BA. addressed a letter to Prime Minister of Pakistan in which he made allegations of loot and plunder of company at hands of bosses and sent copies thereof to President of Pakistan, Chief Justice, Supreme Court etc.---Enquiry was held against employee who duly attended inquiry proceedings, but neither cross-­examined witnesses nor chose to make a statement or to offer defence--­Employee had not only sent letters against bosses of company with allegations, but continued to repeat them unrepentantly time and again---Such an act of employee was subversion of discipline with vengeance---Allegations of misconduct having fully been established against employee, he was rightly dismissed from service. Pakistan International Airlines Corporation v. Junior Labour Court No.IV, Karachi and others PLD 1978 SC 239; Abdur Rashid Qureshi v. Industrial Court West Pakistan, Lahore and others 1967 PLC 367; Cooper & Company Employees' Union v. Messrs Cooper & Company Ltd., Karachi 1970 PLC 206 and M/s. Lawrencepur Woollen & Textile Mills Limited v. Muhammad Farooq and 2 others NLR 1980 Labour SC 91 ref. Appellant in person. HA. Jafri for Respondents Nos. 2 to 4. Date of hearing: 7th August, 1994. DECISION This appeal calls in question the order of the Labour Court No. 1, Karachi dismissing the petition filed under section 25-A of the IRO. The circumstances forming the background of the case, succinctly stated, are as follows: The petitioner was working as a Boiler Operator of the respondent company since 1985. On the 7th of June, 1992, when he addressed a letter to the then Prime Minister of Pakistan, he was the Secretary of a Union, which was not the C.BA. It contained allegations of loot and plunder of the company at the hands of the bosses. It appears that he had sent copies thereof to the then President of Pakistan, the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court, the Chief Justice of the High Court of Sindh and other celebrities. A copy of the…

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