Miss SEEMA SANAM vs PROVINCE OF SINDH Employment on daily wages or ad hoc basis

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Miss SEEMA SANAM VS PROVINCE OF SINDH Employment on daily wages or ad hoc basis---Regularization of service---Entitlement---Discrimination based on regularization of a similarly placed employee, plea of---No vested right for regularization in absence of statutory backing or sanctioned post through proper process---The challenge in the present Constitutional petition was "whether a daily wage employee, appointed without statutory backing or sanctioned post, could lawfully claim reinstatement and regularization of service on the basis of equality with another individual allegedly regularized under similar circumstances"---Held: Contention of the petitioner that since another employee had been regularized she too was entitled to similar treatment under Art. 25 of the Constitution was a flawed argument---Article 25 of the Constitution did not permit extension of benefits arising from illegal or irregular actions---Petitioner was appointed on daily wages basis without adherence to any codified recruitment procedure or advertisement for specific period---Appointments made on daily wages or ad hoc basis did not confer any legal right for regularization unless the appointment was supported by statutory rule or made against a sanctioned post following proper process---Present petition being without substance was dismissed, in circumstances. Citation Name: 2025 PLC(CS) 1521 KARACHI-HIGH-COURT-SINDHBookmark this Case Miss SEEMA SANAM VS PROVINCE OF SINDH art.25---Civil service---Discrimination based on regularization of a similarly placed employee, plea of---Validity---article 25 of the Constitution serves to ensure equality before the law and cannot be invoked to legitimize or perpetuate irregularities---article 25 safeguards lawful and just treatment; it does not authorize courts to extent illegal benefits simply because similar unlawful advantages were offered to others---Plea regarding same treatment given to similarly placed employees cannot be granted if regularization was without support of any law or statute.

Miss SEEMA SANAM vs PROVINCE OF SINDH Employment on daily wages or ad hoc basis — 2025 PLC(CS) 1521 KARACHI-HIGH-COURT-SINDH

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