MUHAMMAD UZAIR ASLAM vs GOVERNMENT OF PAKISTAN through Secretary Water and Power Development Authority, Islamabad art — 2023 PLC(CS) 1038 LAHORE-HIGH-COURT-LAHORE

Case information

Citation: 2023 PLC(CS) 1038 LAHORE-HIGH-COURT-LAHORE
Court: Lahore High Court
Year: 2023
Reporter: PLC
Parties: MUHAMMAD UZAIR ASLAM vs GOVERNMENT OF PAKISTAN through Secretary Water and Power Development Authority, Islamabad art

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Judgment text as reported

MUHAMMAD UZAIR ASLAM VS GOVERNMENT OF PAKISTAN through Secretary Water and Power Development Authority, Islamabad art.199---Recruitment---Vested right---Devising of policy---Recruitment process, cancelling of---appellants were aggrieved of cancelling the process of recruitment as they had cleared written test leading to qualify for interview or even had passed the interview---Plea raised by authorities was that the process was abandoned for formulating recruitment policy---Validity---Term "vested right" is an expression that completely and definitely belongs to a person that cannot be impaired or taken away without person's consent and is independent of any contingency and is absolute, complete and unconditional---Mere expectancy of future benefits or contingent interest does not constitute a vested right and once a right matures into enforceable legal right under the law, the same cannot be taken away arbitrarily, capriciously and in a mala fide manner---Direction for formulation of uniform and fair policy for age relaxation before initiation of fresh recruitment process could not be termed as unlawful, rather was to curb a possibility of discrimination---Division Bench of High Court declined to interfere in judgment passed by Judge in Chambers of High Court as the act of authorities was not tainted with any illegality---Intra Court appeal was dismissed, in circumstances.

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