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Pakistan Water and Power Development Authority Employees (Efficiency and Discipline) Rules, 1978--- ----R.2(5)---Penalty---Imposition of---Civil servant being Executive Engineer was charged for adopting unfair means to conceal the stealing of electricity in his area by indicating fictitious and bogus figures of units of electricity received from Grid Station and for forwarding report of Sub-Divisional Officer (S.D.O.) to higher Authority showing wrong figures---Enquiry was held against civil servant and Competent Authority imposed penalty upon him by "placing him one step down in the time scale for a period of one year" which penalty later on was modified to that of "censure"---In the disciplinary proceedings, Inquiry Officer fairly dealt with all allegations against civil servant and came to the conclusion at the charge of stealing of electricity by consumers during his tenure as XEN was not proved as prosecution could not produce any evidence to substantiate that allegation, but Inquiry Officer was of the view that civil servant had submitted monthly line losses statement based on fictitious figures---Civil servant was also found responsible for forwarding false statement of line losses without re-verifying same---Penalty of -one step down in the time scale for a period of one year' to that of "censure" was rightly converted by Appellate Authority in circumstances. JUDGMENT ABDUL RAZZAQ THAHIM (CHAIRMAN). ---The facts of this appeal are that the appellant, Mr. Raja Saeed Ahmad, while posted as Executive Engineer, Kasur Division was served with the charge-sheet, dated 21-1-1986, alongwith statement of allegations containing the following charges: "During the period 10/83 to 11/84 when Raja Saeed Ahmed was posted as Executive Engineer, Kasur Division stealing of Electricity Energy by the consumers was on high side in the area of Kasur Division and he being Incharge of the Division miserably failed to control the same. In order to save himself from the accountability, he and his S.D.Os. with the connivance of Grid Station Staff, Kasur adopted unfair means to conceal the stealing of Electricity by indicating fictitious and bogus figures of 'units received from…

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