Kerala Court June 1969 Judgments

C. Kunhikutty Vs. Workmen of the Malabar Roadways Service

Court: Kerala

Reported in: (1970)IILLJ478Ker

K.K. Mathew, J.1. This is an application to quash an award passed by the Labour Court, Quilon, by the issue of an appropriate writ or order. The dispute referred to the court for adjudication concerned the dismissal of driver P. Velayudhan by the petitioner.2. The charge against Velayudhan was that on June 16, 1965 he picked up a quarrel with a stranger while he was on duty after getting himself drunk. On that day, Velayudhan drove bus K.L.D. 2427 plying between Calicut and Kuttiadi. The bus started from Calicut at about 2.00 p.m. and reached Kuttiadi at 5.15 p m. Since the service had to be resumed only the next morning from Kuttiadi to Calicut, the driver and conductor were halting for the night in a room on the second floor of a building in Kuttiadi. At about 9.no p m. Velayudhan came to the room and found a person described as a 'cooly painter' sleeping in the verandah attached to the first floor of the building. Velayudhan, who is alleged to have been drunk at the time, picked up ...