UME JAMEELA vs PROVINCE OF PUNJAB Regularization of service — 2023 PLC(CS) 1507 LAHORE-HIGH-COURT-LAHORE

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UME JAMEELA VS PROVINCE OF PUNJAB Regularization of service---Policy matter---Appointment criteria---Petitioners were contract employees and aggrieved of not being regularizing in service---Petitioners assailed selection criteria of 2nd Division academic qualification fixed by authorities for selection---Validity---In assessment of suitability of a particular nature of job and its scope in the context of particular employer, Courts cannot prescribe eligibility or experience qualifications and work experience as these are matters of policy and are best left to the authorities---Setting the criteria of 2nd Division of academic qualification in the policy as well as advertisement related to the policy matter of government /department, therefore, Court could not interfere into it---It was not in the domain of the Courts to embark upon an inquiry as to whether a particular Policy was wise and acceptable or whether better policy could be drafted---Court could only interfere, if the policy framed was absolutely capricious and non-informed by reasons, or totally arbitrary, offending the basic requirement of the Constitution---It was for the Department to decide how and in what manner the reservations should be made and such a policy decision normally would not be open to challenge subject to its passing the test of reasonableness---Petitioners, in spite of having 3rd Division in academic qualification, were duly appointed for a period of five years who performed their duties and their tenure of further extension of one year had also expired---High Court declined to interfere with order passed by authorities which otherwise had been passed aptly---Constitutional petition was dismissed, in circumstances.

UME JAMEELA vs PROVINCE OF PUNJAB Regularization of service — 2023 PLC(CS) 1507 LAHORE-HIGH-COURT-LAHORE

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