' FAQIR MUHAMMAD KHOKHAR, J.--- The petitioner MTC/Junior Clerk of the Excise and Taxation Department was proceeded against departmentally on certain charges. The respondent No,2 imposed on him penalties of reduction in pay scale by two stages vide order, dated 13-1-2005. His departmental appeal was turned down by the Chief Secretary, Punjab, by order, dated 4-8-2005.
Therefore, he filed Service Appeal No,2127 of 2005 which was dismissed by the impugned judgment, dated 27-12-2005 passed by the Punjab Service Tribunal, Lahore.
2. The learned counsel for the petitioner argued that the departmental authorities were required to specify a reasonable period for which penalty of reduction in pay by two stages was imposed.
3. The learned A.A.-G., on instructions from Syed Riaz Hussain, Officer in charge, Legal Cell, Excise and Taxation Department stated that the departmental authority was willing to rectify the omission and to specify the period of penalty of reduction of the petitioner by two stages in pay scale.
4. In this view of the matter, this petition is converted into an appeal and the same is allowed. The impugned judgment of the Tribunal as well as the orders, dated 13-1-2005 and 4-8-2005 passed by the respondents are set aside. Consequently, the case is remitted to the Secretary to Government of Punjab, Excise and Taxation Department, Lahore who will specify duration period of the penalty of reduction in pay of the petitioner under intimation to the Assistant Registrar, Branch Registry, Lahore of this Court within two months.