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Civil service-- --- Seniority--Retired civil servant claiming seniority and pro forma promotion--Failure to raise objection to two tentaive seniority lists circulated by department--Belated objection to final list rejected--Appeal before Tribunal, held, was time-barred and pro forma promotion could not be conferred for lack of jurisdiction. Appellant in person. Haroonur Rashid Cheema, District Attorney for Respondents. JUDGMENT S. ABDUL JABBAR KHAN (CHAIRMAN).-- Mian Ijaz Nabi, retired P.C.S., has filed this appeal under section 4 of the Punjab Service Tribunal Act of 1974 as amended in 1975, against orders of respondent No.l, communicated, vide his Office Memo. No. 3197-81/2549/E(F)I, dated 16th September, 1981 by which the claim of the appellant has been rejected. 2. By virtue of this appeal the appellant has prayed that his appeal be accepted and the order of respondent No.l be set aside. He has further prayed that his seniority list be corrected and he may be considered senior in grade of Tehsildar w.e.f. 16-6-1959. He has also urged that respondent No.l be directed to confirm the appellant and his pro forma promotion of Tehsildar of Selection Grade be ordered. 3. Brief facts of the case are that the Board of Revenue Punjab drew up a seniority list of Tehsildars corrected upto 31-12-1968. It was a tentative seniority list on which the name of the appellant was stood at serial No. 172 according to which his date of appointment in the cadre of Tehsildar had been shown as 11-10-1965. Thereafter, another tentative list of all Tehsildars was published by the Board of Revenue, vide Notification No. 693-17/612/E(F) 1. dated 4-2-1970 which was circulated among Tehsildars by the Commissioners of Divisions for inviting the objections on the said list within a period of 1i months. 4. After observing necessary formalities final seniority list of Tehsildars corrected upto 12-6-1971 was published and circulated amongst the Tehsildars, vide letter, dated 2-7-1971. The appellant was retired from service on 12-1-1975 and settled in his native village Gujrat following the commencement of the L.P.R. The appellant moved the representation for correction of the seniority list…

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