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Service Tribunals Act (LXX of 1973)--S.2-A---Appeals filed before the Service Tribunal were within a period of less than one month from the date proceedings were declared abated and therefore, Service Tribunal was not justified in dismissing the appeals as time-barred. Nemo for Appellants. Anwar Kamal, Advocate Supreme Court for Respondent. Date of hearing: 20th December,, 1999. JUDGMENT SAIDUZZAMAN SIDDIQUI, C.J.---The appellants were removed from service on 5-9-1989 and 10-9-1989 respectively. The appellants, after exhausting departmental remedy and serving grievance notice on the respondent, filed their grievance petitions before the Labour Court, Rawalpindi. The Labour Court, however, for personal reasons, was not willing to hear these cases. Accordingly, the cases were referred to Punjab Labour Appellate Tribunal by Labour Court, Rawalpindi, for transfer to some other Labour Court, Punjab Labour Appellate Tribunal transferred these eases to the Labour Court No, 1 at Lahore. The Labour Court At Lahore returned these petitions on 4-6-1996 to the Punjab Labour Appellate Tribunal for entrustment to a competent Court at Rawalpindi. The Appellate Tribunal accepted the request and withdrew the cases from Labour Court No. l at Lahore and transferred them to the Labour Court at Rawalpindi again as the Presiding Officer of that Court in the meantime was transferred. The appellants were directed to appear before the Labour Court at Rayvalpindi on 26-6-1996. However; as the appellants did not appear before the Labour Court, Rawalpindi, on the date these petitions were dismissed for non-prosecution. The applications for restoration of grievance petitions were also dismissed on…

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