MAZHAR ALI KALHORO vs SECRETARY TO GOVERNMENT OF SINDH Ss — 2025 PLC(CS) 683 KARACHI-HIGH-COURT-SINDH

Case information

Citation: 2025 PLC(CS) 683 KARACHI-HIGH-COURT-SINDH
Court: Sindh High Court
Year: 2025
Reporter: PLC
Parties: MAZHAR ALI KALHORO vs SECRETARY TO GOVERNMENT OF SINDH Ss
Subject matter: Civil
Provisions referred to: S. 151

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Judgment text as reported

MAZHAR ALI KALHORO VS SECRETARY TO GOVERNMENT OF SINDH Ss.2(b), 2(d), 2(e) & 3---Constitution of Pakistan---Arts. 25 & 204---Contract employee---Regularization of service in terms of Sindh (Regularization of Adhoc and Contract Employees) Act, 2013---Permanent vacant post---Recommendations for regularization of petitioner in view of his satisfactory long service---Undertaking before the court qua regularization upon lifting of ban---Contention of petitioner was that he was treated discriminately and was not being regularized in disregard of the undertaking given before the court---Validity---Respondents on various occasions made statements before the Court that the petitioner's services should be regularized, however, the needful had not been done on one pretext or the other---Petition was filed in 2018 and more than six years had passed; he had been roaming from pillar to post to achieve his legitimate right, accrued pursuant to the undertaking and assurance by the respondents---When an order is passed, direction given or process issued by a court on the basis of an undertaking, the person in whose favour such assurance is given acquires a valuable right and the person(s) who violate such orders make themselves liable for prosecution for contempt in terms of Art.204 of the Constitution---High Court, to overcome the miseries and agonies suffered by the petitioner, converted the contempt application into one under S. 151, C.P.C. and directed respondents to regularize petitioner's services as per their undertaking---Constitutional petition was disposed of accordingly.

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