FEDERATION OF PAKISTAN through Chief Information Commissioner, Government of Pakistan vs MUHAMMAD SAAD ZAMURAD Ss — 2026 PLC(CS) 526 ISLAMABAD

Case information

Citation: 2026 PLC(CS) 526 ISLAMABAD
Court: Islamabad High Court
Year: 2026
Reporter: PLC
Parties: FEDERATION OF PAKISTAN through Chief Information Commissioner, Government of Pakistan vs MUHAMMAD SAAD ZAMURAD Ss
Subject matter: Constitutional
Provisions referred to: ESTA Code; Information Act

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Judgment text as reported

FEDERATION OF PAKISTAN through Chief Information Commissioner, Government of Pakistan VS MUHAMMAD SAAD ZAMURAD Ss. 22(1)(g), 26 & 27---Constitution of Pakistan, Art.199---Constitutional petition---Legal standing of petitioner---Contract employee---Ineligible to participate in recruitment proceedings---Respondent / contract employee assailed advertisement issued by appellant / Information Commission for recruitment of lower division clerk---Judge in Chambers of High Court allowed Constitutional petition and directed appellant / Commission to proceed in accordance with law---Validity---Respondent was a contractual employee and was 33 years old, well beyond the minimum age limit of 30 years prescribed in the advertisement---Person who was statutorily ineligible to participate in a process could not suffer any legal injury from the process---Respondent / contract employee by his own ineligibility, placed himself outside the class of individuals who could challenge the recruitment---Constitutional petition was not a bona fide exercise of rights but an attempt to obstruct a lawful process by a person lacking any qualifying right---High Court in exercise of jurisdiction under Art.199 of the Constitution could not entertain petition by a person lacking legal standing---Division Bench of High Court set aside order passed by Judge in Chambers of High Court; resultantly the petition filed by respondent / contract employee was dismissed---Division Bench of High Court directed appellant / Information Commission to complete recruitment process in accordance with ESTA Code and restored the advertisement in question---Division Bench of High Court further directed appellant / Information Commission to frame its Recruitment Rules under the relevant provision of Right of Access to Information Act, 2017---Intra Court Appeal was allowed accordingly.

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