The level properties of Xe-124 have been studied through the Te-123(al
pha, 3n) reaction using in-beam gamma-ray spectroscopic techniques. A
comparative analysis of the theoretical studies of the band structure
of Xe-124 and similar transitional nuclei within the frameworks of the
cranked shell model and cranked Hartree-Fock-Bogoliubov formalism has
been performed to extract information about the non-axial deformation
parameter (gamma).