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Punjab Civil Service Rules---R.7.2---Constitution of Pakistan, Art.199---Constitutional petition---Salary of government servant under suspension---Entitlement of salary of such employee---Scope---Petitioner was denied the salary during suspension---Validity---Government servant under suspension shall remain entitled to the pay and allowances that he was drawing immediately before his suspension---Department was directed to make arrangements of arrears of salaries of the petitioner as well as regular payment of future salary---Constitutional petition was allowed. ORDER SHOAIB SAEED, J.--- Through this writ petition the petitioner has prayed that respondents be directed to make the payment of the arrears of the salaries of the petitioner outstanding against them and regular payment of future salary may also be ordered. 2. Succinctly, the facts of the case are that the petitioner was serving as Cotton Inspector Agriculture (Ext.) BS-17 at Kabirwala, District Khanewal and he was placed under suspension vide order dated 17-9-2012 passed by the Secretary to Government of the Punjab Agriculture Department, Lahore. He was directed to join the office of the Executive District Officer Agriculture Multan. He was working there and was drawing his salary from District Accounts Office, Khanewal. Respondent No.1 transferred one Qasir Abbas Cotton Inspector from Jahanian to the post of Cotton Inspector in the office of respondent No.3 vide order dated 28-2-2013. Respondent No.4 after the transfer of said Qasir Abbas stopped the salary of the petitioner. The petitioner approached respondent No.4 and requested him to release his salary on the ground that he is not competent to stop his salary but he refused to release the same, hence this writ petition. 3. Learned counsel for the petitioner contends that respondent No.4 is not competent authority to stop the salary of the petitioner and as per Punjab Civil Service Rules and…

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