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Civil service-----Pro forma promotion--Contest between direct recruits in BS-17 and promotees--Promotee civil servant was promoted in BS-18 with effect from 20-3-1986 on basis of earlier seniority list---Seniority list was, however, corrected on representation of civil servants (direct recruits) and they were shown senior to promotees---Subsequent seniority list attained finality---Direct recruits claiming their pro forma promotion from the date their junior was promoted---Direct recruits as a result of corrected final seniority list, had attained preferential right and they were rightly entitled to BS-18 promotion from the date on which their junior was promoted---Authority having once accepted direct recruits' claim and corrected seniority list which had attained finality, there was no reason to deprive them of their right to get BS-18 through pro forma promotion from the date their junior was so promoted---Authority was directed to issue necessary orders in respect of direct recruits giving them pro forma promotion from the date viz. 20-3-1986 when their Junior was promoted. M.A. Riaz for Appellant. Ch. Manzoor Hussain, DA. for Respondent. Date of hearing: 7th July, 1993. JUDGMENT SYED AAL-E-AHMED (MEMBER): --The appellant Mrs. Shahnaz Nawaz and others have filed this appeal for pro forma promotion/grant of BS-18. 2. Brief facts of the case are that the appellants were appointed as Section Officers through the Punjab Public Service Commission on regular basis by initial recruitment against the vacancies reserved for direct recruitment. They joined between 4-7-1982 and 18-1-1983. For the purpose of seniority all of them will be deemed to have joined on 4-7-1982, the date on which any one of the batch mate joined. The appellant's seniority as Section Officers vis-a-vis promotee Section Officers was incorrectly fixed in the seniority lists of Section Officers as notified on 3-7-1984 and 31-8-1987 wherein the appellants were incorrectly shown junior to the respondents (Promotee Section Officers). On the basis of incorrect seniority as determined in the above-referred seniority list of 1984, Mr. Ghulam Muhammad (Promotee Section Officer) was awarded BS-18,…

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