ZAFAR HUSSAIN BHATTI vs LAHORE HIGH COURT, LAHORE R — 2025 PLC(CS) 624 PUNJAB-SUBORDINATE-JUDICIAL-SERVICE-TRIBUNAL

Case information

Citation: 2025 PLC(CS) 624 PUNJAB-SUBORDINATE-JUDICIAL-SERVICE-TRIBUNAL
Year: 2025
Reporter: PLC
Parties: ZAFAR HUSSAIN BHATTI vs LAHORE HIGH COURT, LAHORE R
Subject matter: Service

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Judgment text as reported

ZAFAR HUSSAIN BHATTI VS LAHORE HIGH COURT, LAHORE R.6(3)---Judicial Officer---Pro forma promotion---Disciplinary proceedings---Conclusion, Delay in---Effect---Show-cause notice was issued on 29.05.2013; appellant furnished reply on 06.06.2013 and personal hearing was afforded on 08.06.2013, however the proceedings were concluded by issuing Notification dated 27.09.2016 i.e. after lapse of more than three years from personal hearing---No justification and sufficient reasons had been advanced by respondent for the delay in concluding the proceedings, especially when regular inquiry was dispensed with on the ground that a judicial order of the appellant was sufficient to show his inefficiency and misconduct---Pendency of disciplinary proceedings was also a punishment and appellant had suffered agony and mental torture for such a long period---Tribunal allowed the appeal against the orders imposing penalty of withholding promotion for a period of three years retrospectively and declining pro forma promotion to the appellant---Appeal was allowed, in circumstances.

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