Law:

Section:

Civil services- -- Negligence-Sub-Engineer recorded measurements on behalf of S.D.O.-Variations found on counter-check by S.D.O. himself-No loss involved-Sub-Engineer censured for negligence-Tribunal, held, Sub-Engineer innocent-Variation found, held, to be simply question of . F.K. Kureishy for Appellant. A.G. Humayun, District Attorney for Respondents. JUDGMENT ABDUL HAMID CHAUDHRY (MEMBER). -Appellant has made this appeal under section 4 of the Punjab Service Tribunals Act, 1974, wherein he has impleaded Secretary to Government of the Punjab Communication and Works Department, Superintending Engineer, 3rd Provincial Building Circle, Lahore and Executive Engineer 5th Provincial Buildings Division, Lahore, as respondents. 2. By virtue of this appeal the appellant has prayed that impugned order at Annexure `C' be set aside and the orders of censure be expunged from the A.C.R. of the appellant. 3. Brief facts of the case are that the appellant while working in `K' Provincial Buildings Sub-Division, Lahore, was served with a show-cause notice in September, 1984. The details of the show-cause notice are at Annexure `A'. A reply to the show-cause notice was submitted to the res­pondent No. 3 by the appellant on 18th October, 1982 After considera­tion of the reply to the show-cause notice, the appellant was censured vide impugned order, dated 6th December, 1982 by respondent No. 3. The appel­lant made an appeal to the Superintending Engineer, 3rd Provincial Building Circle, Lahore on 11th December. 1982 which has not been decided, though a period of 90 days has since elapsed. Hence this appeal. 4. We have heard the parties. It has been argued by the learned counsel for the appellant that the appellant was served with a show-cause notice with the allegations that he had made excess measurements and hence he was guilty of misconduct. It has been further submitted by him that the work being in excess of Rs. 25,000 the entries were required to be made by the S.D.O. himself and not by the appellant. The appellant had made the entries in the measurement book on behalf of the S D.O. These entries were checked 100% by the S.D.O. and the payment was made for these…

Deprecated: trim(): Passing null to parameter #1 ($string) of type string is deprecated in /home/digixyei/sldsystempk.com/view/master-layout/view_case.php on line 492