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(a) Service Tribunals Act (LXX of 1973)-------S. 4---Constitution of Pakistan (1973), Art. 212(3)---Appeal---Termination of service---Employees of National Press Trust---Direction of Service Tribunal to Trust Authority to consider case of appellants in the light of its earlier and determine, whether their case was at par with the case of employees, who had been granted benefit in pursuance of such ---Validity---No exception could be taken to impugned order, which only fostered indiscriminate justice---Supreme Court dismissed petition, refused leave to appeal and in view of contumacious conduct of Trust Authority vis-a-vis appellants directed Trust Authority to pay Rs.5,000 to appellants. (b) Administration of justice--- ----Judgment designed to foster justice would not be open to any exception. Muhammad Ozair Chughtai, Advocate-On-Record for petitioner. Sh. Khizar Hayat, Advocate Supreme Court and Ch. Talib Hussain, Advocate-On-Record (absent) for Respondent No.1. M. Rafiq Shad, Advocate Supreme Court with A.H. Masood, Advocate-On-Record for Respondents No.2. Date of hearing: 11th May, 2005. JUDGMENT KHALIL-UR-REHMAN RAMDAY, J.---This order shall dispose of Civil Petitions Nos.2681-L to 2692-L of 2004 as they arise out of the same consolidated judgment of the Federal Service Tribunal, dated 26-7-2004 and involve similar questions of law and facts. 2. The private respondents in all these petitions were employees of the National Press Trust whose services had been terminated. The appeals filed by them before the learned Tribunal were transferred to the High Court in the year 2001 in view of the provisions of section 31 of Ordinance LII of 2000. The learned High Court, however, found through a judgment, dated 17-4-2002, that the Federal Service Tribunal had the jurisdiction in the matter and consequently sent the appeals back to the learned Tribunal which were then decided through the above-mentioned impugned judgment. 3. The only prayer made by the private respondents before the learned Tribunal was that the benefit of a judgment of the learned Tribunal, dated 4-10-2003 passed in Appeals Nos.1339 to 1367(L) of 1999 be also extended to them. The learned Tribunal…

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