ABDUL RAUF vs GOVERNMENT OF BALOCHISTAN advertisement for appointments

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ABDUL RAUF VS GOVERNMENT OF BALOCHISTAN advertisement for appointments---Locus poenitentiae, principle of---applicability---Candidates having qualified written test and interview were recommended for appointment by the Recruitment Committee---Department did not announce result on the basis of said recommendations but re-advertised the posts on the ground of delay in completion of recruitment process---Validity---Department had constituted Selection Committee for conducting written test and interview for the posts in question---Petitioners had qualified written test and interview and merit list had been prepared---Candidates had been recommended by the Selection Committee for appointment---Petitioners who had been recommended by the Recruitment Committee after due process were not at fault for protracted and lengthy process of recruitment---Re-advertisement of the posts in question was not justified and plausible, in circumstances---No plausible and legal justification existed for cancellation of recommendations of Recruitment Committee---No illegality or irregularity had been pointed out in the constitution of Selection Committee---Once process of selection had been completed in an ordinary manner then it could not be upset in an arbitrary manner---Process of recruitment in the present case had been completed and all decisive steps had been taken for recruitment---any lapse or delay in executing a clerical or inconsequential formality would not render such process incomplete---Right had accrued in favour of petitioners for job against the posts for which they had been selected---No power of locus poenitentiae was left with the department to retract from their steps---Department was directed by the High Court to issue appointment orders in favour of petitioners after due verification of their credentials---Constitutional petition was allowed, in circumstances. Head NotesCase Description

ABDUL RAUF vs GOVERNMENT OF BALOCHISTAN advertisement for appointments — 2022 PLC(CS) 1494 QUETTA-HIGH-COURT-BALOCHISTAN

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