THE HON'BLE SRI JUSTICE GOPALA KRISHNA TAMADA W.P.No.23218 of 2000 ORDER The petitioner-APSRTC filed this writ petition questioning the award, dated 08.08.2000, passed by the Industrial Tribunal- cum-Labour Court, Visakhapatnam (for short ‘the Tribunal’) in I.D.No.204 of 1998, whereby the order of removal passed against the respondent herein was set aside. 2. The charge against the respondent is that though he was actually born in the year 1964, he produced a birth certificate as if he was born in the year 1960 to get appointment in the petitioner Corporation. The charge against him was proved and he was removed from service. The same was questioned by him by filing I.D.No.204 of 1998 before the Tribunal, which in turn, held that the said certificate is not beneficial to him, and if it is accepted that he was born in the year 1960, he is loosing four years of service and thus, set aside the order of removal and directed the petitioner to reinstate the respondent into service with backwages and attendant benefits. The same is questioned by the petitioner Corporation by filing the present writ petition. 3. Heard. 4. Having heard the submissions made by the learned counsel on either side, this Court is of the view that the Tribunal is right in holding that the disciplinary authority is not justified in removing the petitioner from service by saying that the respondent was born in 1960 and he is loosing four years of service, which is said to be detrimental to him. 5. Accordingly, I see no merits in this writ petition and the same is, accordingly, dismissed. No order as to costs. _________________________ GOPALA KRISHNA TAMADA, J Date:25.11.2010 sj