Law: Punjab Service Tribunals Act, (IX of 1974)

Section: 4

Punjab Service Tribunals Act (IX of 1974)---S. 4-Seniority matter-Appellant claiming seniority as Stenographer from date his junior in cadre of Stenotypist promoted-Claim resisted on grounds that appellant had opted for lien of promotion as Junior Clerk to Senior Clerk-Record indicating that appellant informed that his lien of cadre in Senior Clerks stood terminated after confirmation as Stenotypist-Such stand raised only for first time by Department before Service Tribunal-Contention rejected �Held : once it is found that appellant was working as stenotypist on regular basis it would be too late in the days to say that his lien in Senior Clerks cadre subsists-Appellant, held, entitled to seniority in cadre of Stenotypists with consequential benefits.Riaz Anwar and Taj Muhammad Khan Langha for Appellant.A. G. Humuyun for Respondent.JUDGMENT Muhammad Aslam, Stenographer, Office of the Director of Agricul�tural Engineering, Multan, has filed this appeal under section 4 of the Punjab Service Tribunal Act, 1974, in which he has impleaded the Province of the Punjab through Secretary to Government of the Punjab, Agriculture Department, Lahore, the Director-General Agriculture (Field) Punjab. Lahore, Director of Agricultural Engineering, Faisalabad, Director of Agricultural Engineering, Multan, Messrs Altaf Hussain, Muhammad Afzal, Nazir Ahmad, Muhammad Aslam Shahid, Muhammad Iqbal Shah, G. M. Masood, Ghulam Yasin, Muhammad Yousaf, Muhammad Yaqub Khan, Muhammad Aslam, Majeed Ahmad and Muhammad Mushtaq, as respondents. 2. By virtue of this appeal he has prayed that the appeal be accepted and the order of respondent No. 2, dated 16th January, 1982 and earlier order, dated 25th January, 1981, be declared as illegal and the appellant be declared senior to respondents Nos. 5 to 16 and consequent relief of promotion from 7th March, 1974 the date when the junior was so promoted, be granted. 3. Brief facts of the case are that the appellant was placed at No. 1 in the seniority list of 1971, as Stenotypist. During the year 1974, one Ghulam Sarwar Shah, who was placed at No. 4 of the seniority list of Stenotypists was promoted as Stenographer N.P.S. 8, by…

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