THE HON’BLE SRI JUSTICE L.NARASIMHA REDDY WRIT PETITION No. 12316 OF 2008 O R D E R: The petitioner claims to have been retrenched from service by the Executive Engineer, R&B, Regular Division, Hanumkonda on 31.3.1994. He presented an Industrial Dispute, under Section 2-A(2) of the Industrial Disputes Act, on 30.4.2008, before the Labour Court, Warangal, through a representative, by name P.M.Vijay, who is said to be the president of Kakatiya NMR Workcharged Workers Union, R&B Department, Hanumkonda, with Registration No.E-2775. The grievance of the petitioner is that neither the Office, nor the Presiding Officer of the Labour Court, have received the I.D., and seeks appropriate direction, in this regard. Sri A.K. Jayaprakash Rao, learned counsel for the petitioner, submits that even if there are any defects in the I.D., the Labour Court ought to have received the same and returned it with necessary endorsement, and there cannot be any justification for not receiving the I.D. at all. On enquiry by this court, the learned counsel informed that the Union named above, was registered in the year 2007. The claim of the petitioner itself was stale one, in the sense it was made after 14 years. Be that as it may, the facility of presenting an Industrial Dispute, through representatives, is to be guided by certain norms. A union can only espouse the cause of its members. Admittedly, the union, of which the representative is said to be the president, was registered in the year 2007. The question of the petitioner becoming the member thereof, much less, the union espousing the cause of the year 1994, does not arise. Therefore, the writ petition is dismissed. It is, however, left open to the petitioner, to present his claim personally, or by obtaining permission from the court to entertain the services of an Advocate. There shall be no order as to costs. ________________ 16th June 2008 PAN