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Petitioner: ABDUL HAMEED FORESTER VS Respondent: DIVISIONAL FOREST OFFICER, SIALKOTHonorable Justice MUHAMMAD MAHMUD ASIAM PIRZADA
1992 P L C (C
1992 P L C (C.S.) 320
[Service Tribunal Punjab]
Present: Muhammad Mehmud Aslam Pirzada, Chairman and Malik Abdul Aziz, Member-I
ABDUL HAMEED FORESTER
Versus
DIVISIONAL FOREST OFFICER, SIALKOT and another
Appeal No. 199/725 of 1987, decided on 5th October, 1991.
Civil services---
----Penalty---Penalties of recovery of loss and censure were imposed on civil servant who was forester, on allegation that seven tyres alongwith rims were stolen from water tanker parked in area under his control due to his negligence---Civil servant as forester was duty bound to take proper care of Government water tanker and should have made adequate arrangements for safety of water tanker parked at forest nursery in his block---Civil servant not only failed to make adequate arrangements for safety of Government property falling within his jurisdiction, but reported matter of theft to police station after expiry of 18 to 20 hours which was clear cut negligence of duty and violence of Rules---Government have suffered loss in form of theft of tyres due to civil servant's inefficiency and negligence, he was rightly held responsible for such loss and was punished---Civil servant having failed to pinpoint and establish any legal defect on point of law or fact in departmental proceedings undertaken by Authorities against him and charge levelled against him having stood proved from record beyond any doubt, orders of Authorities passed against civil servant could not be interfered with.
MA. Riaz for Appellant.
Abbas Raza, DA. for Respondents.
Date of hearing: 11th August, 1991.