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(a) Civil services-- Seniority-- Continuous officiation in d, grade-Reversion not actual but merely on paper and in absentia Can have no material bearing on the date of Continuous officiation for purpose of seniority. (b) Civil services--Seniority-Central Government officials absorbed by Provincial Government on transfer of subjects to Pro vincial jurisdiction-principle of continuous officiation in grade of comparable grade accepted by Provincial Government as a term of absorption of such officials-Non-confirmation of such employees in a grade, in circumstances, held, could not deprive them to count their continuous officiating period toward seniority in the grade or comparable grade-Such officials, further held, could be treated as deputation depriving them of being show it seniority list of other Provincial Government officials of comparable grade.   ORDER S. A. MAHMOOD (CHAIRMAN).---This is an appeal by Sirajuddin who has been placed at serial. No. 75 in the seniority list d Assistant and Stenographers as on 1-4-1968 circulated on the 27 of April 1968. He complains that he should have been given seniority w.e.f. 13-1-1950, from which date he continued to officiate in a comparable grade. Sirajuddin appellant joined the Central Government as a Junior Clerk on 1-5-1942, and was promoted as Upper Division Clerk in 1949, On 13-1-1950, which is the claimed date, ho was promoted as Senior Clerk by the Central Government in the Department of Supply and Development against a post existing in the Supply Wing and was provisionally confirmed as a Senior Clerk by the Central Government w. e. f. 13th August 1951.…