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2022 PLD 247 SUPREME-COURT
CRESCENT TEXTILE MILLS LTD., HARIPUR VS GOVERNMENT OF KHYBER PAKHTUNKHWA through Chief Secretary, Peshawar O. XIX, R. 2---Petition for leave to appeal before the Supreme Court---Dismissed for non-prosecution---Adjournment sought by counsel…
2022 PLD 248 SUPREME-COURT
NOOR MUHAMMAD VS MUHAMMAD ASHRAF Scope---Remand order is required in cases which cannot be decided on the basis of available evidence, however, where the evidence is sufficient for a decision of a case, a remand order is not required.
2022 PLD 248 SUPREME-COURT
NOOR MUHAMMAD VS MUHAMMAD ASHRAF S. 115---Revisional jurisdiction of the High Court---Scope---Remand order passed by Appellate Court---Such remand order could be set-aside by the High Court in its revisional jurisdiction if the Appellate Co…
2022 PLD 253 SUPREME-COURT
GOVERNMENT OF KHYBER PAKHTUNKHWA VS WALI KHAN art. 45---Penal Code (XLV of 1860), S. 302---Persons convicted and sentenced under S. 302, P.P.C---Special and ordinary remissions---Eligibility for---In the present case all the notifications i…
2022 PLD 253 SUPREME-COURT
GOVERNMENT OF KHYBER PAKHTUNKHWA VS WALI KHAN art. 45---Pakistan Prisons Rules, 1978, R. 207---Power of President and the Superintendent of Jail to grant remissions---Distinction---Rule 207 of the Pakistan Prisons Rules, 1978 empower the Su…
2022 PLD 253 SUPREME-COURT
GOVERNMENT OF KHYBER PAKHTUNKHWA VS WALI KHAN art. 45---Pakistan Prisons Rules, 1978, R. 207---Conflict between the Pakistan Prisons Rules, 1978 and any provision of the Constitution---Provisions of the Constitution shall prevail.
2022 PLD 3 SUPREME-COURT
HAMZA SHERAZ VS RIAZ MEHMOOD S. 24---Deposit of one-third of the sale price of the property in Court by the pre-emptor---Meagre shortfall in amount of money deposited---Whether a genuine mistake on part of pre-emptor in depositing exact amo…
2022 PLD 261 SUPREME-COURT
Syed KHURSHEED AHMED SHAH VS State S. 497---National Accountability Ordinance (XVIII of 1999), S. 9(a)(v)---Constitution of Pakistan, Art. 185(3)---Benami assets disproportionate to known sources of income of the accused---Bail, grant of---…
2022 PLD 261 SUPREME-COURT
Syed KHURSHEED AHMED SHAH VS State Ss. 9 & 10---Constitution of Pakistan, Arts. 9, 10, 10A, 14(1) & 185(3)---Criminal Procedure Code (V of 1898), S. 497---Person accused of an offence under the National Accountability Ordinance, 1999 ('NAB…
2022 PLD 261 SUPREME-COURT
Syed KHURSHEED AHMED SHAH VS State S. 9(a)(v)---Benami transaction---Proof---Factors to be considered by court---Number of factors were to be considered to determine the question whether a particular transaction is benami in character but p…
2022 PLD 261 SUPREME-COURT
Syed KHURSHEED AHMED SHAH VS State S. 497---National Accountability Ordinance (XVIII of 1999), S. 9(a)(v)---Constitution of Pakistan, Art. 185(3)---Benami assets disproportionate to known sources of income of the accused---Bail, grant of---…
2022 PLD 261 SUPREME-COURT
Syed KHURSHEED AHMED SHAH VS State S. 9(a)(v)---Assets disproportionate to known sources of income---Comparison with income of accused---Scope---Value of the property at the time of its purchase is to be compared with the known sources of i…
2022 PLC(CS) 1 SUPREME-COURT
GUL ROZ VS The GOVERNMENT OF PAKISTAN Interim order /suspension order suspending promotion to next rank---Scope and effect---Suspension order was neither a final adjudication about the validity of a promotion order nor it tantamount to its…
2022 PLC(CS) 23 SUPREME-COURT
GOVERNMENT OF KHYBER PAKHTUNKHWA VS ABDUL MANAN When the intent of the legislature was manifestly clear from the wording of the statute, the rules of interpretation required that such law be interpreted as it is by assigning the ordinary En…
2022 PLC(CS) 23 SUPREME-COURT
GOVERNMENT OF KHYBER PAKHTUNKHWA VS ABDUL MANAN Ss. 2(1)(b) & 3---Contract/ad hoc employees---Regularization in service---Scope---To be regularized under the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Employees (Regularization of Services) Act, 2009 ('the 2009 Act…
2022 PLC(CS) 23 SUPREME-COURT
GOVERNMENT OF KHYBER PAKHTUNKHWA VS ABDUL MANAN Prospective effect of an Act---Scope---When the law itself provided a date for the application of an Act, the Court cannot, on any ground, amend the said date and extend the application of the…
2022 PLC(CS) 47 SUPREME-COURT
MUHAMMAD SHAFIQUE VS The ADDITIONAL FINANCE SECRETARY (BUDGET) GOVERNMENT OF PAKISTAN, ISLAMABAD R. 4(3)(b)---Government Servants (Efficiency and Discipline) Rules, 1973, R. 4(1)(b)(i) [since repealed]---Fundamental Rules, F.R. 29---Major p…
2022 PLC(CS) 47 SUPREME-COURT
MUHAMMAD SHAFIQUE VS The ADDITIONAL FINANCE SECRETARY (BUDGET) GOVERNMENT OF PAKISTAN, ISLAMABAD R. 4(1)(b)(i)---Constitution of Pakistan, Art. 10A---Employee of National Saving Center---Unauthorized and illegal checking and retention of pr…
2022 PLC(CS) 47 SUPREME-COURT
MUHAMMAD SHAFIQUE VS The ADDITIONAL FINANCE SECRETARY (BUDGET) GOVERNMENT OF PAKISTAN, ISLAMABAD Employees of a Government financial institution---Public trust and confidence---Duties of employees of a Government financial institution expla…
2022 PLC(CS) 47 SUPREME-COURT
MUHAMMAD SHAFIQUE VS The ADDITIONAL FINANCE SECRETARY (BUDGET) GOVERNMENT OF PAKISTAN, ISLAMABAD R. 4(1)(b)(i)---Constitution of Pakistan, Art. 10A---Malpractice, misconduct and misuse of official decision---Major penalty of reduction to lo…
2022 PLC(CS) 85 SUPREME-COURT
VICE-CHANCELLOR, BACHA KHAN UNIVERSITY CHARSADDA, KHYBER PAKHTUNKHWA VS TANVEER AHMAD Contractual employees---Such employees had no vested right of regularization in service---By mere efflux of time, an employee could not claim regularizati…
2022 PLC(CS) 85 SUPREME-COURT
VICE-CHANCELLOR, BACHA KHAN UNIVERSITY CHARSADDA, KHYBER PAKHTUNKHWA VS TANVEER AHMAD art. 199---Constitutional jurisdiction of High Court---Scope---Master-servant relationship---Contractual terms of employment---Matters such as how and whe…
2022 PLC(CS) 104 SUPREME-COURT
SECRETARY AGRICULTURE, LIVESTOCK AND COOPERATION DEPARTMENT, PESHAWAR VS ANEES AHMAD Pro forma promotion---Respondent, who was otherwise eligible for promotion, was not promoted by the Departmental Promotion Committee (DPC), as it adjourned…
2022 PLC(CS) 132 SUPREME-COURT
SECRETARY ELEMENTARY AND SECONDARY EDUCATION DEPARTMENT, GOVERNMENT OF KHYBER PAKHTUNKHWA, PESHAWAR VS NOOR-UL-AMIN Failure to report to duty on expiry of ex-Pakistan leave---Removal from service---Service Tribunal by way of impugned judgme…
2022 PLC(CS) 164 SUPREME-COURT
GOVERNMENT OF KHYBER PAKHTUNKHWA through Secretary Agriculture, Livestock and Cooperative Department Peshawar VS SAEED-UL-HASSAN Contract/project posts---Termination from service on completion of projects---High Court ordering reinstatement…
2022 PLC(CS) 164 SUPREME-COURT
GOVERNMENT OF KHYBER PAKHTUNKHWA through Secretary Agriculture, Livestock and Cooperative Department Peshawar VS SAEED-UL-HASSAN Contract/project posts---Regularization in service, right of---Scope---Long or satisfactory contractual service…
2022 PLC(CS) 164 SUPREME-COURT
GOVERNMENT OF KHYBER PAKHTUNKHWA through Secretary Agriculture, Livestock and Cooperative Department Peshawar VS SAEED-UL-HASSAN art. 199---Constitutional jurisdiction of the High Court---Scope---Jurisdiction of the High Court was to interp…
2022 PLC(CS) 164 SUPREME-COURT
GOVERNMENT OF KHYBER PAKHTUNKHWA through Secretary Agriculture, Livestock and Cooperative Department Peshawar VS SAEED-UL-HASSAN art. 199---Constitutional jurisdiction of the High Court---Scope---Civil service---Creation/abolishment of post…
2022 PLC(CS) 164 SUPREME-COURT
GOVERNMENT OF KHYBER PAKHTUNKHWA through Secretary Agriculture, Livestock and Cooperative Department Peshawar VS SAEED-UL-HASSAN art. 199---Constitutional jurisdiction of the High Court---Scope---Discretionary jurisdiction under art. 199 of…
2022 PLC(CS) 186 SUPREME-COURT
SECRETARY LOCAL GOVERNMENT, ELECTION RURAL DEVELOPMENT, KHYBER PAKHTUNKHWA VS MUHAMMAD TARIQ KHAN Contract/project employees---Expiry of tenure of project---Such employees had no vested right of regularization in service.
2022 PLC(CS) 186 SUPREME-COURT
SECRETARY LOCAL GOVERNMENT, ELECTION RURAL DEVELOPMENT, KHYBER PAKHTUNKHWA VS MUHAMMAD TARIQ KHAN S. 11---Res-judicata, doctrine of ---Principles relating to doctrine of res-judicata stated.
2022 PLC(CS) 202 SUPREME-COURT
MINISTRY OF FINANCE VS Syed AFROZ AKHTAR RIZVI art.371-a---Contract employees subsequently regularized in service---Pension---Conditions of qualifying service---article 371 of Civil Service Regulations (C.S.R.) did not allow Government serv…
2022 PLC(CS) 229 SUPREME-COURT
GHAYASUDDIN SHAHANI VS AKHTAR HUSSAIN Posts of vaccinators (BPS-6)-- Appointment process---Selection of candidates on union-wise basis instead of district or provincial level---Legality---Basic purpose of (selecting vaccinators for the) Exp…
2022 PLC(CS) 229 SUPREME-COURT
GHAYASUDDIN SHAHANI VS AKHTAR HUSSAIN advertisement for a post---Terms of advertisement---Scope---Whatever the terms of the advertisement were, the appointments must follow the criterion as disclosed therein without any departure so that no…
2022 PLC(CS) 229 SUPREME-COURT
GHAYASUDDIN SHAHANI VS AKHTAR HUSSAIN Posts of vaccinators (BPS-6)---Qualifications for candidates---Recruitment process---High Court in the impugned judgment had addressed all the issues those were brought forth in the recruitment process-…
2022 PLC(CS) 278 SUPREME-COURT
DEPUTY INSPECTOR GENERAL OF POLICE, LAHORE VS SARFRAZ AHMED Police constable---Willful absence from duty, involvement in criminal cases and maintaining relations with criminals---Dismissal from service---Department had conducted a regular i…
2022 PLC(CS) 278 SUPREME-COURT
DEPUTY INSPECTOR GENERAL OF POLICE, LAHORE VS SARFRAZ AHMED S. 5---Power of Provincial Service Tribunal to confirm, set aside, vary or modify a punishment imposed by the department/competent authority---Scope---Such power was not to be exer…
2022 PLC(CS) 316 SUPREME-COURT
SHAHZAD SHAHMIR VS GOVERNMENT OF SINDH through Chief Secretary, Sindh art. 242---Civil service---Project posts of BPS-17---Recruitment of Headmaster/Headmistress (BPS-17) initiated by the Provincial Government for an education reform projec…
2022 PLC(CS) 288 SUPREME-COURT
QUETTA DEVELOPMENT AUTHORITY VS ABDUL BASIT appointment orders, restoration of---Res-judicata, principle of--- applicability---appellant authority/employer ('the authority") in the present round of litigation, had once again raised the same…
2022 PLC(CS) 316 SUPREME-COURT
SHAHZAD SHAHMIR VS GOVERNMENT OF SINDH through Chief Secretary, Sindh Project posts---Recruitment of Headmaster/Headmistress (BPS-17) initiated by the Provincial Government for an education reform project---Legality---Petitioners seem to ha…
2022 PLC(CS) 288 SUPREME-COURT
QUETTA DEVELOPMENT AUTHORITY VS ABDUL BASIT art 199---Constitutional petition before the High Court---Laches, principle of---Scope---Rule of laches was applied in accordance with facts and circumstances of each case, and it could not be mad…
2022 PLC(CS) 288 SUPREME-COURT
QUETTA DEVELOPMENT AUTHORITY VS ABDUL BASIT art. 25---Civil service---appointment orders, restoration of---Relief of restoration of appointments orders granted to similarly and equally placed employees---Present employees/respondents were a…
2022 PLC(CS) 336 SUPREME-COURT
WALI JAN VS GOVERNMENT OF KHYBER PAKHTUNKHWA through Secretary Agriculture, Livestock Cooperative Department, Peshawar arts. 187(1) & 212(3)---Service appeal before the Supreme Court---Scope---Party (civil servant) had no right to raise an…
2022 PLC(CS) 356 SUPREME-COURT
CHAIRMAN NATIONAL ACCOUNTABILITY BUREAU VS FARAZ AHMED SHERWANI Para. 14.08---Civil Servants (Appointment, Promotion and Transfer) Rules, 1973, R. 3(2)---Post of Private Secretary (BPS-17) in National Accountability Bureau (NAB)---History o…
2022 PLC(CS) 383 SUPREME-COURT
Syed AZAM SHAH VS FEDERATION OF PAKISTAN through Secretary Cabinet Division, Cabinet Secretariat, Islamabad Locus-poenitentiae, principle of---Applicability---Benefit/allowance wrongly extended to a civil servant due to some misunderstandin…
2022 PLC(CS) 383 SUPREME-COURT
Syed AZAM SHAH VS FEDERATION OF PAKISTAN through Secretary Cabinet Division, Cabinet Secretariat, Islamabad arts. 185(3) & 199--- Policy formulated by Government for civil servants --- Judicial review---Scope---Not the role of the Courts to…
2022 PLC(CS) 383 SUPREME-COURT
Syed AZAM SHAH VS FEDERATION OF PAKISTAN through Secretary Cabinet Division, Cabinet Secretariat, Islamabad art. 25---Equality of citizens-- Reasonable classification on basis of intelligible differentia---Connotation and Scope---Equality c…
2022 PLC(CS) 424 SUPREME-COURT
SUI SOUTHERN GAS COMPANY LTD. VS ZEESHAN USMANI Contract employees---Such employees had no vested right to claim regularization.
2022 PLC(CS) 424 SUPREME-COURT
SUI SOUTHERN GAS COMPANY LTD. VS ZEESHAN USMANI Contract employees of Sui Southern Gas Company Ltd.---Plea for regularization in service, dismissal of---Admittedly, the respondents were contract employees and their relationship was governed…
2022 PLC(CS) 449 SUPREME-COURT
SABOOR KHAN VS CHAIRMAN WAPDA, WAPDA HOUSE, LAHORE Rr. 4(1)(b)(iii), 4(1)(b)(iv) & 6---Security guards (petitioners) deliberately causing injuries to their senior---'Removal from service'---During the departmental proceedings, both the peti…
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