Law: Service Tribunals Act (LXX of 1973).

Section: 4

Service Tribunals Act (LXX of 1973) S. 4-Appeal-Limitation-Civil servant making several representa tions against final departmental order-Law not permitting filing of such representations and exclusion of period spent therein not permis sible for filing an appeal before Tribunal-Appeal filed about two years after final departmental order-Held, badly time-barred and rightly dismissed. Date of hearing : 24th November, 1980.                                                                                                                   ORDER MUHAMMAD AFZAL ZULLAH, J.--Leave to appeal has been sought from order dated 9-8-1980 of the Central Service Tribunal, Islamabad, whereby the petitioner's appeal was dismissed as time barred. Rana Ghulam Sarwar Khan, petitioner, an Assistant Foreman of POF, Wah Cantonment was Departmentally proceeded against, as a result whereof his promotion was stopped for six months and he was also censured for absence of duty. This order was passed by the punishing authority on 22nd of July, 1976. The petitioner filed a Departmental appeal which was dismissed on 16-7-1978. Thereafter, instead of filing an appeal before the Service Tribu nal, he sent several representations to the President, which were not forwarded by the authorities concerned. The last representation was withheld on 10-6-1980. Taking advantage of this date the petitioner filed an appeal before the Service Tribunal under section 4 of the Central Service…