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SECRETARY FINANCE, GOVERNMENT OF KHYBER PAKHTUNKHWA, PESHAWAR vs Syed JEHANGIR SHAH art — 2024 SCMR 538 SUPREME-COURT

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Citation
2024 SCMR 538 SUPREME-COURT
Court
Supreme Court of Pakistan
Year
2024
Reporter
SCMR
Parties
SECRETARY FINANCE, GOVERNMENT OF KHYBER PAKHTUNKHWA, PESHAWAR vs Syed JEHANGIR SHAH art

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Judgment text as reported

SECRETARY FINANCE, GOVERNMENT OF KHYBER PAKHTUNKHWA, PESHAWAR VS Syed JEHANGIR SHAH art. 25---Civil service---Employees of Solicitor Office, Law Department, Peshawar ('the respondents')---Special allowance and utility allowance, denial of---Discrimination---Two allowances in question were also drawn by the respondents but later payment of such allowances was discontinued by the Government on the ground that the employees of the Solicitor Office were not part of the Civil Secretariat, therefore, not entitled for such allowances---Legality---High Court rightly allowed said allowances to the respondent by holding that that the classification so made by the Government qua granting of said two allowances to specified employees while denying the same to other employees who were also posted inside the walled premises of the Civil Secretariat, could not be termed as reasonable and amounted to offend the principle of equity before the law---High Court correctly noted that the office of the Solicitor having a separate entity in the Law Department was situated within the premises of the Civil Secretariat, therefore, the employees of the Solicitor Office were similarly placed and were entitled to the grant of special allowance and utility allowance---Counsel for the Provincial Government could not point out any illegality or perversity in the impugned judgment of the High Court, which was maintained---Resultantly, appeal was dismissed.

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