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Punjab Civil Service Rules, Vol. 1, Part 1- R. 7-Punjab Government Letter No. S (R) 1-13/50/SO. XIII, dated 10-1-1979-Finance Department Letter No. 954-SO (SR) 1V/72, dated 2-6-1972-Civil servant suspended for being tried on criminal charge­ Acquittal on benefit of doubt-Competent Authority empowered to withhold balance of such civil servant's pay for period during which he remained under suspension.-[Civil service]. Ch. Mushtaq Masood, Advocate Supreme Court with Ch. Mehdi Khan Mehtab, Advocate-on-Record for Petitioner. Nemo for Respondents. Date of hearing: 1st November, 1983. ORDER ASLAM RIAZ HUSSAIN, J.-This petition is directed against the order of the Punjab Services Tribunal dated 7-8-1982, dismissing petitioner's appeal. 2. The facts giving rise to this petition, briefly, are that at the relevant time the petitioner was employed as a Junior Clerk/Cashier in the office of Extra Assistant Director, Agriculture, Sheikhupura. A dacoity took place in the office of the said Department on the night between 2nd and 3rd of September, 1973 wherein considerable amount of money was taken away by the dacoits by forcibly breaking open the safe. A case under section 458/380, P. P. C. was registered with the police with respect to the said dacoity and after investigation a challan was submitted in the Court of Magistrate Ist Class, Sheikhupura against the accused persons under the said sections. The petitioner was also included amongst the accused. 3. The prosecution examined as many as 26 witnesses in support of its case. After a protracted trial of the case the learned Magistrate, however, acquitted the accused including the petitioner, by giving them the benefit of doubt, vide judgment dated 17-7-1979. 4. The petitioner who was a Government servant had been placed under' suspension soon after the registration of the case and remained under suspen­sion till 31-8-1979. During the period of suspension he was given 1/2 of his pay as subsistence allowance, as admissible under the rules. After his acquittal he was re-instated with effect from 1-9-1979. He then claimed the remaining 1/2 of his pay for the period of his suspension. He filed a depart­mental appeal in this…

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