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Civil service- --Demotion-Civil servant promoted to Grade-16 on recommenda­tion of Departmental Promotion Committee on basis of record showing his date of officiation in Grade-11 as 9th April, 1970-­Date of officiation in Grade-I1 subsequently found to be 23rd January, 1971 and consequently matter referred to Departmental Promotion Committee for opinion who unanimously opined that it would not have recommended civil servant for promotion if correct date of continuous officiation in Grade was placed before them­ Demotion to Grade-11, held, rightly recorded, in circumstances. Muhammad Saved Ansari for Appellant. Hafiz Tariq Naseem for the State. Syed Muhammad Safi for Respondent No. 4. Date of hearing : 21st September, 1982. JUDGMENT MUHAMMAD IRSHAD KHAN (MEMBER).-The case of the appellant is that he was working as Assistant Superintendent, Railway Mail Service, in the Pakistan Post Office Department in October, 1976, when he was approved for promotion to Grade-16 by the concerned Departmental Promotion Committee. He was accordingly vide order, dated the 15th June, 1977, promoted to Grade-16 and was posted as Postmaster (Savings) Peshawar G. P. O. with effect from 31st May, 1977. Thereafter, however, the appellant received a show-cause notice, dated 27th August, 1977 issued by respondent No. 2, the Director-General, Pakistan Post Office, calling upon him to explain as to why he should not be demoted for the reason that his date of continuous officiation as Assistant Superintendent was wrongly considered by the Departmental Promotion Committee on 9th April, 1970. The appellant, in reply to the said show-cause notice, pleaded that if his date of continuous officiation in Grade-1 I was wrongly conveyed as 9th April, 1970 then it was the fault of the Postmaster General's Office and he could not be blamed for that. The appellant further submitted that even on the basis of his correct date of continuous officiation in Grade-11 (23rd January, 1971) he was entitled to be retained in Grade-16 as the two other officials namely, Messrs Nusrat Ali Siddiqi and Muhammad Nawaz were also promoted to Grade-16 along with him and, according to the appellant, they are junior to him.…

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