MUHAMMAD AMIR SHABBIR vs GOVERNMENT OF PUNJAB Service agreement — 2026 PLC(CS) 590 LAHORE-HIGH-COURT-LAHORE |

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MUHAMMAD AMIR SHABBIR VS GOVERNMENT OF PUNJAB Service agreement---Termination---Terms of employment---Past experience---Scope---Termination of petitioner was based on alleged falsity of the certificate-an allegation which was negated by the official verification report albeit averred that experience as daily wager was not relevant and the petitioner was not eligible for the post---Validity---Interpretation of experience by authorities was legally flawed and petitioner's termination was unjustified---There was no legal provision, statutory, regulatory, or otherwise that could exclude daily-wage or contractual and project based employment/service from being treating as "experience" for the purposes of eligibility---Such exclusion would constitute an unreasonable classification, unjustly depriving candidates of legitimate professional opportunity despite performing actual work in the relevant field---This was not the true object of the experience criterion---Any exclusion, which deprives a citizen of consideration for public employment must have a clear foundation in law---Where the advertisement stipulated five years' experience - entities registered with SECP or a relevant regulatory body - the later insistence that such experience must be on a regular, rather than contract or daily-wage basis, was wholly untenable when neither the law (statute, the rules, the recruitment policy), nor the advertisement had prescribed such a bar---Introducing an impediment in respect of eligibility of a post not expressly provided amounted to reading into the criteria what the law or the advertisement did not contain, thereby infringing the Constitutional right of thepetitioner to seek employment---High Court set aside the termination order as well as relieving order and regularization of petitioner was declared valid and lawful---High Court directed the authorities to reinstate petitioner in service and intervening period would be treated as leave without pay, in accordance with the undertaking of the petitioner that he would not claim back benefits---Constitutional petition was allowed accordingly.

MUHAMMAD AMIR SHABBIR vs GOVERNMENT OF PUNJAB Service agreement — 2026 PLC(CS) 590 LAHORE-HIGH-COURT-LAHORE

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