S. ABDUL JABBAR KHAN (CHAIRMAN).-Muhammad Ismail R. A. (Retd.) has filed this appeal under section 4' of the Punjab Service Tribunals Act, 1974, in which he has impleaded Government of the Punjab through Secretary Irrigation and Power Department as respondents.
2. By virtue of this appeal he has prayed that his retirement under section 12(ii) after completion of 25 years service be set aside and he may t be re-instated in service with all back benefits.
3. We have heard the appellant in person who has conceded before us that he was retired after completion of 25 years' service qualifying for pension benefits, etc. And by the competent authority.
He has also conce--ded that he was unable to show any personal malice of the authority which so retired him. The only point which he has urged before us is that the P.C.O., 1981 as well as section 12
(ii) was an unjustified law which gave unfettered powers to the competent authority to throw out a person at the stage of life when it was not possible for him to adjust himself in the society otherwise than in service which he was so performing. He has addressed us lengthy arguments and has tried to persuade us that we should strike down the law so passed as immoral, illegal and arbitrary.
4. We are afraid we cannot accept the arguments so advanced, as we being the Tribunal set up under an enactment have to interpret the law as it is and cannot go into the moral and ethics of the same.
5. The result is we dismiss the appeal in limine as being without any merits.