1. MUHAMMAD AFZAL ZULLAH, J.-Leave to appeal is granted in this service matter to consider the following two questions :-
(a) Whether the Local Audit Departmental Rules, 1958 should not have governed the question as to who was the competent authority; and
(b) Whether the civil suit remained at all competent, after the enactment,, of new service laws in 1973/1974 and what is the effect of provisions relating to abatement of similar matters together with the rule laid down by this Court in Federation of Pakistan v. Muhammad Siddiq; PLD1981SC249.
2. Order accordingly. Appeal to be prepared on the present record with liberty to the parties to file additional documents, if necessary.