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Punjab Civil Servants (Efficiency and Discipline) Rules, 1975--------Rr. 5,6 & 7---Constitution of Pakistan (1973), Art. 199---Constitutional petition--- Termination of service---Departmental appeal---Departmental appeal tiled against termination of service of civil servant was not decided by Appellate Authority for more than two years---Civil servant in his Constitutional petition had prayed that a direction be issued to the Appellate Authority to attend to and to dispose of his appeal which had already been inordinately delayed---Departmental Authorities before whom the aggrieved civil servant preferred representation/appeal, were under a statutory obligation to dispose of the same within a reasonable period of time so that the civil servant could have recourse to the appropriate Service Tribunal for seeking . redress of the grievance arising out of the Departmental action against him. S.H.M. Rizvi and 5 others v. Maqsood Ahmad and 6 others PLD 1981 SC 612 ref. Qazi Umar Farooq for Appellant. ORDER The facts giving rise to the instant Constitution petition are that the petitioner, Muhammad Ramzan, was recruited as a driver in the Office of Director, Soil Conservation, Jhelum on 2-1-1984. His services were terminated by Deputy Director, Soil Conservation, Jhelum, on 26-5-1998. Feeling himself aggrieved of the said termination of his service by the respondents, he preferred an, appeal before the Director, Soil Conservation, Rawalpindi, as in the meantime he had been transferred to Rawalpindi. This appeal had been preferred by him on 30-5-1998. The grievance made by the petitioner in the Constitution petition is that his departmental appeal which as aforesaid was filed on 30-5-1998 has not seen the light of the day eversince its institution and awaits its disposal in accordance with law by the Appellate Authority. Learned counsel for the petitioner submits that on the one hand services of the petitioner have been terminated when he had rendered 15 years unblemished service with the respondents and he was thereby rendered jobless, and on the other hand, the Appellate Authority is, sitting over his departmental appeal and not passing any order thereon with the…

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