Law:

Section:

(a) Azad Jammu and Kashmir Secretariat (Section Officers) Service Rules, 1978--- ----Seniority---Promotion---Appellant a Section Officer challenging promotion of Respondents as Section Officers by which his inter se seniority over said respondents was disturbed---Respondents secured promotion after having qualified a competitive test by which their names were placed on panel of approved candidates for posts of Section Officers---Appellant was also in Secretariat Service at that time but he did not choose to appear in the lest to qualify himself for post of Section Officer---Impugned orders of promotion of respondents were made by Government after hearing appellant and giving due consideration of his case of promotion on merits---Respondents had qualified themselves for the post of Section Officers long before enforcement of Section Officers (Service) Rules, 1978; under Rules then existing---Appellant having himself not chosen to take qualifying test which was prescribed for the year 1977, for promotion of suitable candidate, could not claim seniority over respondents who got themselves .qualified through said test---Appellant's appeal was filed at a belated stage which could not remedy old wrongs which he suffered because of his own indolence as law helps the vigilant and not the indolent---Appeal was dismissed as time-barred. (b) Azad Jammu and Kashmir Service Tribunals Act, 1975---…

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