JUSTICE SHAH ABDUR RASHID (CHAIRMAN).-This appeal has been preferred from order dated 30th July, 1982, and the appellate order dated 23rd August, 1982. By the first order, the competent authority retired the appellant from service after he had completed 25 years of service qualify--ing for pension and other benefits, while by the second order, his appeal was rejected.
2. This appeal is incompetent in view of the bar of jurisdiction placed by Article 13(1) of the Provisional Constitution Order, 1981, but the learned counsel for the appellant contends that the order of retire--ment had been passed mala fide and that such an order being a nullity in the eye of law, can be struck down by the Tribunal in spite of the bar which relates to valid orders only.
3. The appellant's contention is that a Deputy Secretary of the respondent Division was ill-disposed towards him, because he had, in 1976, brought to the notice of the then Prime Minister certain irregularities of the said Deputy Secretary, for which the appellant was proceeded against, and an order of censure was also passed. In our opinion, this incidence itself does not establish mala fide on the part of the competent authority. The appellant has himself admitted that the decision to retire the appellant was taken by a Committee consisting of a Joint Secretary and two Deputy Secretaries. It is impossible that another Deputy Secretary, who was not of the Committee, should have prevailed upon all the three members of the Committee to get the appellant retired to revenge his personal grudge. In any case, in the departmental appeal preferred to the Minister, the plea of mala fide was not taken, and it is an after-thought embodied in the present appeal which.
Cannot be entertained.
4. The result is that we dismiss this appeal in limine for Want of jurisdiction in view of the bar placed by Article 13 (1) of the Provisional) Constitution Order, 1981.