- Additional Custodian are governed by the rules known as the Azad Jammu and Kashmir Additional Custodians, Deputy Custodian and Managers of Evacuee Property (Terms & Conditions of Service) Rules 1992 — These rules were framed by the Government in exercise of powers u/s 57 of the Act of 1957 — Under rules a Selection Board is constituted and the appointment of Additional Custodian is required to be made on the recommendation of said Selection Board — The appellant and his colleagues Additional Custodians were appointed earlier to the rules but their services were later on regularized under these rules on the recommendations of Selection Board — On account of these reasons through a detailed judgment this Court held the holders of the post of Addl. Custodian to be civil servants — As the Custodian and the Deputy Custodian are governed by different laws, containing different qualifications and mode of their appointment and different terms and conditions — Therefore, the contesting respondent cannot be held civil servant — Thus he was not entitled to avail the appellate jurisdiction of the Service Tribunal. Muhammad Azim Zia v. Nazir Ahmed Qadri & others 2003 SCR 44 (E)
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