AATIKA HINA MUSHTAQ vs SECRETARY SPECIAL EDUCATION GOVERNMENT OF THE PUNJAB, SPECIAL EDUCATION DEPARTMENT LAHORE S — 2025 PLC(CS) 1004 SUPREME-COURT

Case information

Citation: 2025 PLC(CS) 1004 SUPREME-COURT
Court: Supreme Court of Pakistan
Year: 2025
Reporter: PLC
Parties: AATIKA HINA MUSHTAQ vs SECRETARY SPECIAL EDUCATION GOVERNMENT OF THE PUNJAB, SPECIAL EDUCATION DEPARTMENT LAHORE S
Subject matter: Service
Provisions referred to: S. 4---P

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Judgment text as reported

AATIKA HINA MUSHTAQ VS SECRETARY SPECIAL EDUCATION GOVERNMENT OF THE PUNJAB, SPECIAL EDUCATION DEPARTMENT LAHORE S. 4---Punjab Special Education Department (Directorate of Special Education) Service Rules, 2006 [since repealed]---Departmental promotion---Civil bureaucracy---Political influence---Withholding of promotion till amending of service rules---Legality---Civil servant was aggrieved of deferring her promotion till the amendment of Punjab Special Education Department (Directorate of Special Education) Service Rules, 2006---Validity---Arbitrary obstruction, unwarranted delay, capricious interference, unjustified hindrance, manipulation or undue delay in career progression of a civil servant erodes independence and morale of civil bureaucracy, transforming it into an instrument of political patronage, a phenomenon that is antithetical to the ethos of Constitutional democracy and democratic governance---Such interference fosters networks of favoritism and erodes impartiality and credibility of civil service---It is therefore imperative that service laws must be transparent, predictable, and uniformly applied, to ensure equal treatment---Purity of service can be obtained only if promotions are made on merit without favouritism or nepotism---Decision of Departmental Promotion Committee of withholding promotion till such time that Punjab Special Education Department (Directorate of Special Education) Service Rules, 2006 were suitably amended was not sustainable---Supreme Court directed Departmental Promotion Committee to consider the case of civil servant for promotion to the post of Lecturer Physical Education on merits and decide the same within one month from the receipt of this judgment---Appeal was allowed.

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