PROVINCE OF PUNJAB vs QASIM MEHMOOD S — 2025 PLC(CS) 416 SUPREME-COURT

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PROVINCE OF PUNJAB VS QASIM MEHMOOD S. 3---Regularization of service---Matter referred to Scrutiny Committee---Authorities were aggrieved of order passed by High Court referring matter of respondents/contract employees to Scrutiny Committee---Validity---To accommodate and regularize services of contractual employees who gave their blood, toil, tears and sweat for many years, Punjab Regularization of Service Act, 2018 was promulgated with fair intention---It was responsibility of Government to apply and allow benefit to all employees placed in equal and similar circumstances without any discrimination and not to pick and choose employees for conferring benefit or advantage of law---Implementation of Punjab Regularization of Service Act, 2018 has to be unbiased and non-discriminatory, rather it should be evenhanded, fair and square---When law giver enacts any beneficial law, it must be implemented across the board with assiduousness and meticulousness without any conservative or rigid approach---Implementation of beneficial statutes meant for civil servants and labourers are unnecessarily being delayed which forces deprived persons to knock the doors of Courts---If implementation is made in its letter and spirit within a reasonable period of time, then such course would decrease unnecessary burden on Court's docket---Supreme Court declined to interfere in the matter as High Court only held that respondents/contract employees were liable to be considered for regularization under Punjab Regularization of Service Act, 2018 and appointing authority was directed to send their cases for consideration to competent authority and till determination of eligibility, services of respondent/contract employees would not be terminated---Petition for leave to appeal was dismissed and leave was refused.

PROVINCE OF PUNJAB vs QASIM MEHMOOD S — 2025 PLC(CS) 416 SUPREME-COURT

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