ISLAMABAD: Salman Ahmed, a Pakistan Customs Service officer of BS-16, has been given major penalty over misconduct.
Disciplinary proceedings under Government Servants (Efficiency & Discipline) Rules, 1973 were initiated against the officer, posted as Appraiser at Model Customs Collectorate Exports (Port Muhammad Bin Qasim), Karachi vide charge sheet dated 17.09.2014.
Junaid Ahmad Memon, the then Additional Collector (BS-19), MCC Exports (Port Muhammad Bin Qasim), Karachi, was appointed as inquiry officer to probe into the account of various acts of omission and commission committed by the accused officer constituting ‘inefficiency’ and ‘misconduct’.
According to the inquiry report, the charge of ‘misconduct’ was established against the accused officer. A show-cause notice dated 06.05.2015 was issued to the accused officer. Subsequently, an addendum in the show-cause notice was also issued to the accused on 03.04.2017. On receipt of his defence reply, he was called for personal hearing by the Authorized officer on 05.01.2017 and 03.05.2017 respectively. After considering the charges framed in the charge sheet, inquiry report and other available record, the accused officer has been found guilty of “misconduct” under rules 3(b) of the Government Servants (Efficiency and Discipline) Rules, 1973.
The Member (Admn) being authority in this case, after having considered all aspects of the case and the recommendations of the authorized officer, imposed the major penalty of “reduction to lower stage in time scale (three stages lower)” upon Salman Ahmed, Appraiser under rule 4(1)(b)(i) of the Govt. Servants (Efficiency & Discipline) Rules, 1973. His Performance Allowance shall be stopped for one year from the date of award of penalty as provided in Para 7(iii) of the Performance Allowance Guidelines, 2015 and he will have to appear afresh for restoration of the same. He is taken on duty with immediate effect and the period of his unauthorized absence from duty with effect from December 23, 2013 till the date of his charge assumption is treated/ commuted into EOL (without pay and allowances).
