DECISION ' This appeal from the order of the Labour Court, Karachi dismissing the application under section 25-A IRO filed by the appellant arises in the following circumstance:
1. It was alleged that the appellant was employed by the respondent No,1 in the Weaving Section of the Mill on 1-1-1981 but the Identity Card was issued in the name of one Gul Baz the respondent No, 2 alleged to be a contractor with whom he had nothing to do. As the appellant was being denied all the benefits and privileges of a permanent workman of the respondent mill he had occasionally remonstrated and thereby incurred their wrath.
2. On 15-10-1989 he was gate-stopped while proceeding for the duty. Thereupon he had sent grievance notices to both the respondents and finding no satisfaction from them had filed the grievance petition before the Labour Court.
3. The respondent No, 1 in their Written Statement denied any relationship with the appellant. Their case was that the Weaving Section was on lease with the contractor and they knew nothing about the alleged happening of 15-10-1989. The contractor also filed a Written Statement and maintained that he had terminated the services of the appellant because of continued absence without leave.
4. The appellant was the solitary witness. Shah Zarin who had filed his affidavit-in-evidence was later on dropped, and was not made available for cross-examination. There was one witness on behalf of the respondent.
5. On the appellant's own showing he had no documentary evidence by way of Identity Card, Attendance Card or Social Security Card. Before the Labour Court he stated that: "It is a fact that the respondent No, 2 Gul Baz Khan had appointed me and used to pay me wages and also, supervise my work. I was appointed on 1-1-1981."
' He goes on further to say that for all these periods he had never complained to anybody that he was being denied the benefits or privileges of a regular workman of the mill."
' This clinches the matter. I see therefore no merit in this appeal and hereby dismiss the same.