MUHAMMAD YOUSAF KHAN AND Others vs PAKISTAN WESTERN RAILWAY — 1972 SCMR 1

Citation: 1972 SCMR 1

Court: Supreme Court of Pakistan

Year: 1971

Decision Date: 1971-12-31

Parties: MUHAMMAD YOUSAF KHAN AND Others vs PAKISTAN WESTERN RAILWAY JUDGMENT

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Case cited as 1972 SCMR 1

Judgment Text

Court Name: Supreme Court of Pakistan Judge(s): Waheeduddin Ahmad, Hamoodur Rahman, Sajjad Ahmad Jan Title:MUHAMMAD YOUSAF KHAN AND Others vs PAKISTAN WESTERN RAILWAY JUDGMENT Reported As: 1972 SCMR 1 Result: Petition dismissed Judgment JUDGMENT HAMOODUR RAHMAN, C. J.-This is a petition for the review of an order passed by this Court on the 29th of June 1971 dismissing Civil Petition for Special Leave to Appeal No. 37 of 1971. The petitioners, who are optee Railway Guards from the East Indian Railway, joined the North- Western Railway on coming to Pakistan. In the beginning they were provisionally placed in a combined seniority list prepared in the year 1952 with Guards opting from other Railways to Pakistan. There were subsequently further changes in the combined seniority list and a concordance of optee Guards was prepared by the Railway Administration. The petitioners felt aggrieved by the position given to them in the combined seniority list as a result of the subsequent changes and they filed a suit in the Court of the Civil Judge, Multan, for a declaration that the combined seniority list prepared in 1952 had been illegally ; and unlawfully changed and that they were entitled to be treated as Grade ---B--- Guards. Their complaint was that they had been wrongly placed in a lower grade as Grade `C' Guards. That Suite was dismissed in 1959 and the decision was upheld in appeal by the High Court. A writ petition, being Writ Petition No. 1198 of 1957, filed by another…

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