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Civil service-- ---Seniority--Period of service as stop-gap arrangements against leave vacancy--Such period of service, held, could not be counted towards seniority over regular appointee ague t regular vacancy. 1982 P L C (C. S.) 94 rel. Muhammad Saleem for Appellant. Manzoor Hussain Bhatti, District Attorney for Respondent. JUDGMENT S. ABDUL JABBAR KHAN (CHAIRMAN). --Altaf Hussain, Assistant, Directorate of Education (Schools), Rawalpindi Division, Rawalpindi has filed this appeal under section 4 of the Punjab Service Tribunals Act, 1974 against the order dated 21-9-1981 passed by Deputy Director (Schools), Rawalpindi Division, Rawalpindi, whereby he has allowed seniority to Respondent No.4 over the appellant. He has impleaded Director of Public Instructions (Schools) Punjab, Lahore, Director of Education (Schools), Rawalpindi Division, Rawalpindi, Deputy Director (Schools), Directorate of Education (S), Rawalpindi Division, Rawalpindi and Muhammad Ayub, Assistant, Directorate of Education (Schools), Rawalpindi Division, Rawalpindi as respondents. 2. By virtue of this appeal he has prayed that the order dated 21-9-1981 regarding seniority of respondent No.4 be set aside. 3. Brief facts of the case are that the appellant appointed as Junior Clerk w.e.f. 16-3-1968 and his appointment was confirmed by order dated 6-4-1978. A seniority List was prepared and circulated among all concerned vide order dated 1-3-1979 (Annexure 'B'). In the said seniority List the appellant was placed at Sr. No.67 and respondent No.4 at Sr. No.80. This Seniority List although circulated but was never objected to by the respondent No.4. The appellant and respondent No.4 were promoted as Senior Clerks in accordance with their respective seniority but later on it seems that the respondent No.4 filed an appeal against the seniority of the appellant and the said appeal was accepted and appellant was declared junior to the respondent No. 4. However, this fact came to the notice of the appellant and as soon as he learnt the same he filed an appeal to the next higher authority but the same was not accepted. The said appeal was decided on 15-9-1985. Hence this appeal. 4. We have heard the…

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