Annexure-T

PAKISTAN WATER AND POWER DEVELOPMENT

AUTHORITY
Telephone: 69911/204
Telegrams: WAPDA LAHORE
No. S/SO (R) 24/Vol. 1/18144-18743

722-Wapda House,
Lahore
10th July, 1980
OFFICE ORDER

Subject:-PROCEEDINGS UNDER THE WEST PAKISTAN WAPDA EMPLOYEES (E&D)

RULES
Under the amended Rule 5, the 'competent authority' is empowered to decide, at the
initial stage, whether an enquiry should be conducted through an Enquiry Officer or an
Enquiry Committee. If it is decided that no Enquiry is to be conducted, an order in writing
informing the accused of the action proposed to be taken against him and the grounds of
the action is to be issued. The competent authority is also required to give the accused an
opportunity to submit an explanation, against the action proposed to be taken and to give
him personal hearing, if the accused so desires.
2. If the competent authority decides that an inquiry through an Enquiry Officer
or Enquiry Committee shall be conducted, a proper charge-sheet is to be drawn up and
communicated to the accused alongwith a statement of the allegations as per Rule 6 of the
E&D Rules. The competent authority will then require the accused to put in written de
fence within a period of not less than seven days and not more than 14 days and also to
state whether he desires to be heard in person or not.
3. It some times happens that letters issued under Rule 5 calling for the explanation
of the accused, or the letters under Rule 6 communicating the charges to the accused, are
not received personally and are returned with the following reports:
(a) The Addressee has refused to accept it
(b) A member of the addressee's family has received it, as the addressee was
not available.
In all these cases, if the letter was despatched through Registered Post it shall be presumed under Section 114 (f) of the Evidence Act, that it was duly delivered. If the letter

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is not returned with any report and the accused on the due date does not appear before the
Enquiry Officer, Enquiry Committee or the competent authority, the same presumption of
due delivery can be raised and exparte action may be taken without issuing other notice to
him.
4. Some times such letters are received with the report that whereabouts of the
addressee are not known and, therefore, the letters could not be delivered to him. In all such
cases a notice may be issued in the Wapda 'Khabar Nama' or any other newspaper, in the
prescribed form, informing the accused of the proceedings and calling upon him to attend
the proceedings on the date fixed for this purpose.
5. Wapda E&D Rules 1978 are being amended to this extent to avoid any legal ob
jections. The procedure laid down in the above-mentioned Rules should be read carefully
and strictly followed.

Colonel
(IdreesMohsin)
Secretary, Wapda