MUHAMMAD SARWAR KETARIA vs EHTESAB BUREAU, AZAD JAMMU AND KASHMIR appointment on contract — 2025 PLC(CS) 446 SUPREME-COURT-AZAD-KASHMIR

Case information

Citation: 2025 PLC(CS) 446 SUPREME-COURT-AZAD-KASHMIR
Court: Supreme Court of Pakistan
Year: 2025
Reporter: PLC
Parties: MUHAMMAD SARWAR KETARIA vs EHTESAB BUREAU, AZAD JAMMU AND KASHMIR appointment on contract
Subject matter: Constitutional

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Judgment text as reported

MUHAMMAD SARWAR KETARIA VS EHTESAB BUREAU, AZAD JAMMU AND KASHMIR appointment on contract---Termination---Scope---Record revealed that the petitioner was initially appointed as Technical Expert Revenue (BS-18) Ehtesab Bureau, on contract basis on the recommendations of Selection Committee for a period of one year ; later on, his contract appointment was extended twice (for period(s) of one year and two years respectively)---admittedly, the contract appointment of the petitioner was made under Cl. IV(iii) of the azad Jammu and Kashmir Contract appointment Policy, 2006, according to the which (clause), the service of a contract employee could be terminated on one month's notice or on month's pay in lieu thereof, by either side without assigning any reason---Thus, as the petitioner was a temporary/contractual employee in the department as mentioned in his appointment notification his service could be terminated at any time by the competent authority in the light of the said contractual policy---In the present case, the authority removed him after paying one month's salary which was in accordance with the contractual policy, therefore, in view of the above reasoning, he could not be restored in his service---High Court had not committed any illegality by dismissing the writ petition filed by petitioner in limine---No question of law and public importance was involved in the present petition which was a pre-requisite for grant of leave---Leave could not be granted in routine just to create a false hope in the mind of a litigant---Petition for leave to appeal was dismissed.

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