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Petitioner: MUHAMMAD IQBAL VS Respondent: INSPECTOR-GENERAL OF POLICE, PUNJAB, LAHOREHonorable Justice ABDUL AZIZ MALIK
1992 P L C (C
1992 P L C (C.S.) 327
[Service Tribunal Punjab]
Present: Muhammad Mehmud Aslam Pirzada, Chairman and Abdul Aziz Malik, Member-I
MUHAMMAD IQBAL
Versus
INSPECTOR-GENERAL OF POLICE, PUNJAB, LAHORE and 2 others
Appeal No. 4 of 1991, decided on 28th September, 1991.
Punjab Police (Efficiency and Discipline) Rules, 1975---
----Rr. 3(a) & 6(3)(i)---Misconduct---Dismissal from service on charge of receiving stolen property---Civil servant, who was police constable, was dismissed from service after serving with show-cause notice on charge of receiving stolen property---Charge against civil servant, for which he was dismissed from service stood proved against him from relevant record beyond any reasonable doubt and he had failed to rebut same by means of any authentic oral or documentary evidence---Civil servant being a member of police force had been found guilty of heinous crime, which was unbecoming and the least expected of a custodian of law and order and as such, did not deserve any lenient penalty short of dismissal from service.
Muhammad Yasin Bhatti for Appellant.
Ch. Manzoor Hussain, DA. for Respondents.
Date of hearing: 25th August, 1991.