Syed ALI HAMZA vs PROVINCE OF THE PUNJAB arts — 2022 PLC(CS) 525 LAHORE-HIGH-COURT-LAHORE

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Syed ALI HAMZA VS PROVINCE OF THE PUNJAB arts.25 & 199---Regularization of service---Equality of citizens---Discriminatory treatment---Scope---Petitioners assailed denial of their request for regularization of service---Petitioners put much emphasis on the ground that they were entitled to regularization of their services as the authorities had regularized similarly placed persons who were appointed on daily wages/contract basis---Stance of authorities was that the petitioners were not entitled to regularization as the previous daily wages/contract employees were regularized after scrutinizing each and every case while the petitioners did not fall within the ambit of prescribed criteria---Validity---Petitioners, at the time of joining, had accepted all the terms and conditions of their contract employment and could not resile from the same at a belated stage---Perusal of prescribed criteria revealed that a person who was appointed to a post on work charge/daily wages must have one-year complete satisfactory service, must fulfil the qualification/experience and age limit as per the Regulations and the post for which he applied must exist in the budget/the Regulations---Record attached by the authorities revealed that amongst the petitioners, some did not fulfil the requirement of age limit, while others' work was not satisfactory and there was also service break in their employment---Petitioners did not fulfil the criterion for the regularization of their service and it could not be said that the respondents had treated them indifferently or given discriminatory treatment---Constitutional petition was dismissed, in circumstances.

Syed ALI HAMZA vs PROVINCE OF THE PUNJAB arts — 2022 PLC(CS) 525 LAHORE-HIGH-COURT-LAHORE

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