BMTC conductor loses job as well as case owing to his 'conduct'

BENGALURU: In an interesting case, a bus conductor working with Bengaluru Metropolitan Transport Corporation(BMTC) lost his job and also the case before the courts, owing to his conduct.
A division bench headed by Justice K L Manjunath, while dismissing the writ appeal filed K N Mashna Reddy, the conductor of the bus in question noted that there is no corroboration in the evidence of witnesses vis-a- vis the claim made by the appellant.
Firstly, the checking staff found Reddy having not issued five tickets of Rs 5 denomination to five persons and Rs 3 tickets to 20 persons on July 17,1999 when he was entrusted with the bus route number 213M of BMTC.
When a memo was issued he did not give satisfactory answer and thereafter he was dismissed from service upon enquiry.The labour court upheld his dismissal. In the high court also his petition before the single bench and writ appeal before a division bench also came to dismissed.
The court refused to accept Reddy's contention that owing to sudden rush of passengers from a maxi cab which was in front of his bus, he could not issue tickets. Interestingly, Reddy had mentioned in his evidence that only 10-11 passengers from the maxi cab forcibly entered his bus after an altercation. However, Anthony, who was driving the BMTC bus, had given evidence that 20-25 passengers entered the bus.
Added to this, Suresh, the maxi cab driver had stated that he stopped the BMTC bus so as to ensure passengers get into that and he does not what happened thereafter.