' JUSTICE (RETD.) TANVIR BASHIR ANSARI (CHAIRMAN).---Petitioner submits that he was appointed as Office Assistant by the respondent through a verbal order. Also submits that a sum of Rs,1000 only was paid to him as remuneration. Through his petition he claims a sum of Rs,18427 as arrears of his pay.
2. Notice was issued to the respondents who have submitted their reply wherein the claim of the petitioner as a Newspaper Employee under the respondent-Establishment has been vehemently denied.
3. When confronted, the petitioner has not been able to produce either his appointment letter or any other tangible documentary evidence to establish his claimed employment.
4. Reference may be made to the Implementation Tribunal for Newspaper Employees (Procedure and Functions) Rules, 1977 which deals with the disposal of the individual grievance in Rule 15(1)(i)
(ii). The provisions of the rules do not admit the entertainment of the instant application before this Tribunal as it is not the case of the petitioner that he was not included in the declaration forms submitted by the Management or that he joined service after the submission of such declaration form.
5. The case of the petitioner in essence is that he was employed by the respondent-Establishment although through a verbal order. This claim has been denied by the respondent-Establishment as hereinbefore stated.
6. For the above said reasons as the petition does not relate to the individual grievance within the purview of the Implementation Tribunal for Newspaper Employees (Procedure and Functions)
Rules, 1977 the petition does not fall within the jurisdiction of this Tribunal and is hereby dismissed.
The petitioner, if so advised, may seek his remedy as provided to him under the law, before such competent forum which has jurisdiction to redress his grievace. No order as to costs.