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Punjab Service Tribunals Act (IX of 1974)-------S.4---Constitution of Pakistan (1973), Art. 212(3)---Appeal--­Condonation of delay---Departmental appeal of civil servant was time­barred---Case was decided on 27-11-1994, copy whereof was received by civil servant on 4-12-1994---Appeal was filed on 1-7-2000 without any plausible justification---Service Tribunal dismissed appeal being time­barred while observing that if original order was presumed to be illegal or void, even then there was no escape from prescribed period of limitation---Validity---Findings of Tribunal being well founded did not warrant any interference---Such was a case of individual grievance---No question of law of public importance vas involved---Supreme Court dismissed petition and refused leave to appeal. 1994 SCMR 1033 ref. Petitioner in person. Nemo for Respondents. Date of hearing: 5th May, 2003. ORDER JAVED IQBAL, J. ---This petition for leave to appeal is directed against the judgment dated 19-12-2000 passed by the Punjab Service Tribunal, Lahore, whereby the appeal preferred on behalf of petitioner has been dismissed and order dated 17-7-1986 has been kept intact whereby the petitioner was removed from service. 2. Heard Razi Uddin (petitioner) at length and record perused. It is an admitted feature of the case that the departmental appeal of the petitioner was decided vide order dated. 27-11-1994 by the Director General, Excise, and Taxation Punjab copy whereof was made available to the petitioner on 4-12-1994. The petitioner approached the Service Tribunal on 1-7-2000 after an inordinate delay of six long years that too without any plausible justification. It is worth-mentioning that the departmental appeal of the petitioner was also barred by time. 3. All the contentions agitated before this Court have been dilated upon and decided in a comprehensive manner by the learned Service Tribunal vide judgment impugned, relevant portion whereof is reproduced hereinbelow for ready reference:- "3. It is evident…

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