Hindustan Petroleum Corporation ... vs D.N. Vidhate And Shri S.N. Saudhankar, ... on 30 November, 2004
Reliance is also placed in the judgment of another learned single Judge in the case of Brihan Mumbai Municipal Corporation v. The General Secretary, B.E.S.T. Workers Union & Ors., 1998 II CLR 1031. In that case the Driver was found guilty of habitual absence without leave. Lesser punishment imposed on him on five earlier occasions had failed to bring about any improvement and in those circumstances the order of the Labour Court and Industrial Court holding that punishment of dismissal was shockingly disproportionate and directing reinstatement was patently erroneous.