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DIVISIONAL SUPERINTENDENT, POSTAL SERVICES, GUJRANWALA vs MUHAMMAD ARIF BUTT S — 2021 SCMR 1033 SUPREME-COURT

Case information

Citation
2021 SCMR 1033 SUPREME-COURT
Court
Supreme Court of Pakistan
Year
2021
Reporter
SCMR
Parties
DIVISIONAL SUPERINTENDENT, POSTAL SERVICES, GUJRANWALA vs MUHAMMAD ARIF BUTT S
Subject matter
Service
Provisions referred to
S. 5---F; S. 5; Service Tribunals Act

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Judgment text as reported

DIVISIONAL SUPERINTENDENT, POSTAL SERVICES, GUJRANWALA VS MUHAMMAD ARIF BUTT S. 5---Federal Service Tribunal ('the Tribunal')---Discretion to modify punishment awarded by departmental authorities---Scope---Although the Tribunal had the discretion to interfere in the questions of quantum of punishments, such discretion could neither be exercised arbitrarily nor were the powers of the Tribunal under S. 5 of the Service Tribunals Act, 1973 ('the 1973 Act') unqualified or unlimited---Where the penalties awarded by the competent departmental authorities after following due process of law were to be interfered with in exercise of the discretionary powers of the Tribunal under S. 5 of the 1973 Act, such discretion had to be exercised in a circumscribed, restricted and structured manner duly supported by the legally sustainable reasoning which justified the conclusions reached by it.

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