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Petitioner: MUHAMMAD ASHRAF VS Respondent: EXECUTIVE ENGINEER, UPPER GUGERA DIVISION, SHEIKHUPURAand others
Court Name: Supreme Court of Pakistan Judge(s): Ghulam Mujaddid Mirza, Dr. Javed Iqbal, Saad Saood Jan Title:MUHAMMAD ASHRAF vs EXECUTIVE ENGINEER, UPPER GUGERA DIVISION,
SHEIKHUPURAand others Case No.: Civil Petition No,277 of 1982 Date of Judgment:1989-04-08 Reported As: 1989 SCMR 1244 Result: Petition dismissed Judgment ORDER ' SAAD SAOOD JAN, J.--The petitioner was serving as a canal patwari. He remained absent from duty without leave from 20-12-79 to 12-1-81. This was treated as misconduct and disciplinary proceedings were initiated against him. A charge-sheet was drawn up and sent to his address under registered cover but it remained undelivered. A notice was published in two Urdu Dailies but still the petitioner did not care to respond to it. Faced with this situation the department removed him from service. The petitioner filed an appeal from the order of removal before the Superintending Engineer but it was dismissed. He then filed an appeal before the Punjab Service Tribunal. That too remained unsuccessful. He now seeks leave to appeal from this Court. 2. After hearing the learned counsel we are not persuaded that the order of removal suffers from any infirmity. There is no satisfactory explanation for the petitioner's absence from duty for more than one year. The departmental authorities were therefore justified in removing him from service. No substantial question of law of public importance arises in this petition which is hereby dismissed.