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Industrial Relations Ordinance (XXIII of 1969).- -- S. 25-West Pakistan Water and Power Development Authority Act (XXXI of 1958), S. 17 (1-B)-Jurisdiction of Labour Court-WAPDA employees (Line Superintendent and Bill Distributor)-Civil servants for purposes of Service Tribunals Act, 1973-Not within jurisdiction of Labour Court-Order passed by Labour Court set aside by Appellate Tribunal with direction that grievance petition be returned for presentation to proper forum (Service Tribunal). F. U. Malik v. WAPDA Civil Petition No. 163/11 of 1982 (unreported) fol. A. K. Dogar, Muhammad Zaman Qureshi and M. M. Alam for Appellants. Mian Mahmood Hussain for Respondent No. 1. Respondent No. 2 in person. Asmat Kamal for Respondent No. 3. Date of hearing : 15th March, 1983. JUDGMENT As the law point involved in all the three appeals captioned above is the same, the appeals are being disposed of together through this single judgment. 2. So far as appeal No. 1 is concerned, annual increment of Zahoor Haider Shah, respondent, Line Superintendent Grade-II, was stopped with future effect and dues for the suspension period of 28 days were also not paid. He, therefore, brought grievance petition in Punjab Labour Court No. I, Lahore. 3. Abdus Sattar, respondent, was, according to him, Line Superin­tendent Grade-II, but his seniority was fixed with Linemen Grade-I and he was reverted. He, therefore, brought the grievance petition in Punjab Labour Court No. 7, Gujranwala. 4. Tasleem Ghani, respondent, was a bill distributor. On the allegation that he had failed to distribute large number of bills to the consumers, he was dismissed from service. He, therefore, successfully brought a grievance petition in Punjab Labour Court No. 1, Lahore. 5. All the three appeals succeed on the short ground that the three respondents in the above-captioned appeals are civil servants, so the…

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