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Industrial Relations Ordinance (XXIII of 1969)­ -- Ss. 25-A & 38 (3) read with West Pakistan Water and Power Development Authority Act (XXXI of 1958), S. 17 (1-B)­ Service Tribunals Act (LXX of 1973), S. 4-WAPDA employee non-deputationists - A civil servant for purposes of Service Tribunals Act, 1973-Order of penalty imposed for misconduct challenged before Labour Court-Matter involving terms and conditions of service-Not within jurisdiction of Labour Court­ Order of Labour Court accepting grievance petition, held, without jurisdiction hence set aside by Appellate Tribunal with direction to return grievance petition for presentation to proper forum. F. U. Malik v. WA PDA C. P. No. 163/R of 1982 rel. A. Rashid Malik, Khalid Ahmad and Syed Kamal Mufti for Appellants. Mian Mahmood Hussain for Respondents Nos. 1 to 2. Tahir Qureshi for Respondent No. 3. Date of hearing : 17th May, 1983. JUDGMENT Since the law point involved in the three appeals captioned above is the same, all the three appeals are being disposed of together through this single judgment, in which Masood Ahmad will be described as respondent No. 1, Ghulam Rasool Sajid as respondent No. 2 and Muhammad Ashiq as respondent No. 3. 2, Increment of Masood Ahmad, respondent No. 1, was stopped for one year. He challenged the order in his grievance petitions. So far as Ghulam Rasool Sajid, respondent No. 2, is concerned, he was dismissed on 8th April, 1982 on account of an alleged misconduct committed by him. Muhammad Ashiq also was dismissed on account of an alleged misconduct Respondents Nos. 2 and 3 challenged the orders of their dismissal in separate grievance petitions. 3. Admittedly all the three respondents were employed by WAPDA directly and were not deputationists. Since their prayer was for the setting aside of the orders by which action was taken against them, the question of terms and conditions of service was involved. By virtue of section 17(1-B) of WAPDA Act, 1958, the respondents are civil servants and thus the learned Courts below had no…

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