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Petitioner: LIAQAT ALI VS Respondent: SECRETARY TO GOVERNMENT OF PUNJAB
1998 P L C (C
1998 P L C (C.S.) 18
[Supreme Court of Pakistan]
Present: Zia Mahmood Mirza arid Khalil-ur-Rehman Khan, JJ
Ch. LIAQAT ALI
versus
SECRETARY, GOVERNMENT OF PUNJAB and others
Civil Petition No. 164-L of 1997, decided on 17th March, 1997.
(On appeal from the order dated 29-1-1997 of the Punjab Service Tribunal. Lahore passed in Appeal No. 508 of 1997).
Punjab Civil Servants Act (VIII of 1974)--
---S.9---Constitution of Pakistan (1973), Art. 212(3)_--Posting of civil servant to junior post---Only grievance of civil servant was that he being Grade-18 Officer had been transferred and posted as Deputy Chief Officer of Municipal Corporation while Chief Officer of that Corporation was Grade-17 Officer---Petitioner's grievance if correct, would appear to be genuine-- Petitioner if so advised, should approach Secretary, Local Government who would attend to his said grievance and pass appropriate order warranted in facts and circumstances.
Ghulam Mahmood Qureshi, Advocate Supreme Court for Petitioner.
Mahmoodul Islam, Advocate-on-Record for the Caveator/Respondent No. 2.
Date of hearing: 17th March, 1997.
ORDER
ZIA MAHMOOD MIRZA, J.---The only grievance agitated by the learned counsel for the petitioner is that he is a Grade-18 Officer but he has been transferred and posted as D.C.O, Zila Council, Municipal Corporation. Faisalabad white the Chief Corporation Officer is an officer of Grade-17. This grievance, if correct, appears to be genuine. Petitioner if so advised. may approach the Secretary, Local Government and Rural Development Department who will attend to his aforementioned grievance and pass appropriate order warranted in the facts and cir6umstances.
With this observation, this petition is disposed of.
A.A./L-1/S Petition disposed of.