PROVINCE OF PUNJAB through Special Secretary, Specialized Healthcare and Medical Education Department, Lahore vs KHADIM HUSSAIN ABBASI S — 2021 SCMR 1419 SUPREME-COURT

Case information

Citation: 2021 SCMR 1419 SUPREME-COURT
Court: Supreme Court of Pakistan
Year: 2021
Reporter: SCMR
Parties: PROVINCE OF PUNJAB through Special Secretary, Specialized Healthcare and Medical Education Department, Lahore vs KHADIM HUSSAIN ABBASI S
Subject matter: Service
Provisions referred to: S. 5

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Judgment text as reported

PROVINCE OF PUNJAB through Special Secretary, Specialized Healthcare and Medical Education Department, Lahore VS KHADIM HUSSAIN ABBASI S. 5(1)---Quantum of punishment---Provincial Service Tribunal, discretion of---Scope---Although the Service Tribunal had the discretion to interfere in questions of quantum of punishment, such discretion could neither be arbitrarily and capriciously exercised nor were powers of the Tribunal unqualified or unlimited---Where the Tribunal exercised its discretion to interfere in the penalty awarded by the competent authorities, such discretion had to be exercised in a circumscribed, restricted, carefully calibrated and structured manner duly supported by legally sustainable reasoning.

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