TAJ MUHAMMAD, CHIEF INTERNAL AUDITOR OGDCL vs OIL AND GAS DEVELOPMENT COMPANY LIMITED Preamble — 2022 PLC(CS) 712 ISLAMABAD

Case information

Citation: 2022 PLC(CS) 712 ISLAMABAD
Court: Islamabad High Court
Year: 2022
Reporter: PLC
Parties: TAJ MUHAMMAD, CHIEF INTERNAL AUDITOR OGDCL vs OIL AND GAS DEVELOPMENT COMPANY LIMITED Preamble
Subject matter: Service

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Judgment text as reported

TAJ MUHAMMAD, CHIEF INTERNAL AUDITOR OGDCL VS OIL AND GAS DEVELOPMENT COMPANY LIMITED Preamble---Constitution of Pakistan, Art.199---Constitutional petition --- Promotion --- Antedated promotion --- Eligibility for promotion---Scope---Petitioners claimed antedated promotions in view of the judgments of Supreme Court---Validity--- No general principles had been laid down by High Court or Supreme Court that employees of the Oil and Gas Development Company Limited (OGDCL) were entitled to antedated promotion on the sole basis that they had completed service of five years in their respective grades---Petitioners were seeking the exercise of High Court's extraordinary constitutional jurisdiction to undertake judicial review of promotion/lack of promotion decisions of OGDCL---Promotion criteria specified in the Oil and Gas Development Corporation Employees (Service) Regulations, 1994, reflected that a key component of the promotion decision was objective evaluation of the employee's performance and competence---High Court was not to step into the shoes of the Human Resources department and management of the company and second-guess their decision regarding competence and performance of employees made on the basis of subjective appraisal, merely because the organization was publicly owned company performing duties in relation to the affairs of the State---High Court had no expertise to take employment decisions---Petitioners had failed to make out a case for any procedural impropriety or breach of applicable rules or discrimination or malice---Constitutional petitions were dismissed with costs.

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