The petitioner is the unsuccessful applicant in O.A.No.1066 of 2012 on the file of the Central Administrative Tribunal, Hyderabad Bench, Hyderabad, which was dismissed by order dated 04.06.2015. Challenge in the said O.A. was to the termination of the petitioner’s services as a Casual Worker in the Ship Building Centre at Visakhapatnam. The petitioner was admittedly appointed as Casual Labour under orders of the Admiral Superintendent, Naval Dock Yard, Visakhapatnam, and continued as such till 13.07.2000. On that day, his services were terminated. In the first instance, the petitioner raised an industrial dispute under Section 2- A(2) of the Industrial Disputes Act, 1947 (for brevity, ‘the Act of 1947’), before the Central Government Industrial Tribunal-cum-Labour Court at Hyderabad in I.D.No.127 of 2004. However, the respondents in the said O.A., the respondents before this Court, brought it to the notice of the Central Government Industrial Tribunal-cum-Labour Court, Hyderabad, that the Ship Building Centre, Visakhapatnam, being a project of the Government of India, was exempted from the provisions of the Act of 1947 vide Gazette of India Notification dated 07.01.2003. Taking note of this exemption, the ID was returned to the petitioner for presentation before the appropriate forum. Thereupon, the petitioner approached the Central Administrative Tribunal by way of O.A.No.1066 of 2012.
