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2023 PLC(CS) 202 KARACHI-HIGH-COURT-SINDH
TUFAIL AHMED SHAIKH VS FEDERATION OF PAKISTAN through Secretary Communication R.30---Postings and transfers---Scope---Plaintiff assailed the order of his posting and transfer---Validity---Appointment letter of plaintiff provided that he cou…
2023 PLC(CS) 228 KARACHI-HIGH-COURT-SINDH
ASIF ALI MEMON VS PROVINCE OF SINDH through Chief Secretary Government of Sindh S.10---Constitution of Pakistan, Arts. 199 & 212---Constitutional petition---Maintainability---Posting of choice---Tenure post---Petitioner was civil servant wh…
2023 PLC(CS) 269 KARACHI-HIGH-COURT-SINDH
SHAHZAD SHER ALI VS FEDERATION OF PAKISTAN through Secretary Ministry of Commerce and Textile, Islamabad art.199---Constitutional petition---Civil Service---Non-statutory rules---Relationship of master and servant---Petitioners were employe…
2023 PLC(CS) 341 KARACHI-HIGH-COURT-SINDH
Professor Dr. MUHAMMAD ARSHAD AAZMI VS PROVINCE OF SINDH art.199---Constitutional jurisdiction of High Court---Vested Right---Scope---While exercising Constitutional jurisdiction, if vested right has been created in favour of any party, den…
2023 PLC(CS) 341 KARACHI-HIGH-COURT-SINDH
Professor Dr. MUHAMMAD ARSHAD AAZMI VS PROVINCE OF SINDH arts.4, 10-a & 199---Constitutional petition---Intelligence reports---Due process of law, principle of---applicability---Petitioner was aggrieved of non-issuance of appointment letter…
2023 PLC(CS) 418 KARACHI-HIGH-COURT-SINDH
Qazi SATTAR AHMED alias Abdul Sattar VS MANAGING DIRECTOR (POWER), WAPDA HOUSE, LAHORE Move over---Scope---Petitioner sought move over from BPS-17 to BPS- 18---Validity---Petitioner was appointed vide appointment letter dated: 11-05-1974---…
2023 PLC(CS) 447 KARACHI-HIGH-COURT-SINDH
SHAHNAWAZ VS PROVINCE OF SINDH through Chief Secretary appointment of civil servant---Scope---appointments in public office are to be made strictly under applicable rules and regulations without any discrimination and in a transparent manne…
2023 PLC(CS) 447 KARACHI-HIGH-COURT-SINDH
SHAHNAWAZ VS PROVINCE OF SINDH through Chief Secretary Contractual employees---Regularization of services---Scope---Petitioners sought regularization of their contractual service---Validity--Petitioners had cleared the written examination,…
2023 PLC(CS) 447 KARACHI-HIGH-COURT-SINDH
SHAHNAWAZ VS PROVINCE OF SINDH through Chief Secretary appointment of civil servant---Scope---appointment in public office can only be made through the competitive process on merit as provided under the recruitment rules and not otherwise.
2023 PLC(CS) 447 KARACHI-HIGH-COURT-SINDH
SHAHNAWAZ VS PROVINCE OF SINDH through Chief Secretary appointment of civil servant---Contractual appointment---Scope---Posts are of two kinds one is called temporary post which is always a time-bound post, and the post which is not time-bo…
2023 PLC(CS) 527 KARACHI-HIGH-COURT-SINDH
SULTAN AHMED HASHMANI VS THATTA CEMENT COMPANY LIMITED O.VII, R.11---Dismissal from service---Suit for damages---Rejection of plaint---Lack of cause of action---Scope---Suit for recovery of damages---Plaintiff was dismissed from service---P…
2023 CLC 49 KARACHI-HIGH-COURT-SINDH
SHAFI MUHAMMAD (DECEASED) VS Mst. JANAT S.11---Respondents filed suit for declaration against petitioners in 1994 claiming that suit property was held in the name of deceased father/husband of the petitioners as benamidar---Petitioners file…
2023 CLC 49 KARACHI-HIGH-COURT-SINDH
SHAFI MUHAMMAD (DECEASED) VS Mst. JANAT S.115---Revisional jurisdiction of High Court---Concurrent findings---Scope---Mere fact that another view was possible on appraisal of evidence, concurrent findings of the fact in revisionary jurisdic…
2023 CLC 49 KARACHI-HIGH-COURT-SINDH
SHAFI MUHAMMAD (DECEASED) VS Mst. JANAT S.115---Revisional jurisdiction of High Court---Concurrent finding loaded with reasons---Scope---Even if the provisions of O.XX, R.5 and O.XLI, R.31 of the Civil Procedure Code, 1908, had not been com…
2023 PLC(CS) 566 KARACHI-HIGH-COURT-SINDH
SIKANDAR ALI VS PROVINCE OF SINDH through Secretary Education and Literacy Department, Sindh Sect: Karachi art. 199---Constitutional jurisdiction---Civil service---Right to promotion---Scope---Promotion is neither a right nor there is any c…
2023 PLC(CS) 566 KARACHI-HIGH-COURT-SINDH
SIKANDAR ALI VS PROVINCE OF SINDH through Secretary Education and Literacy Department, Sindh Sect: Karachi art. 199---Constitutional jurisdiction---Civil service---Policy decision by Government, challenge to---Scope---Executive policy makin…
2023 PLC(CS) 566 KARACHI-HIGH-COURT-SINDH
SIKANDAR ALI VS PROVINCE OF SINDH through Secretary Education and Literacy Department, Sindh Sect: Karachi Promotion, right of---Policy decision by Government, challenge to---Scope---For the post of Junior School Teachers (BPS-14) 50% quota…
2023 PLC(CS) 605 KARACHI-HIGH-COURT-SINDH
RASHEED AHMED VS PAKISTAN TELECOMMUNICATION COMPANY LIMITED Ss.42 & 54---Pakistan Telecommunication Company Limited Service Regulations, 1996, Reglns. 7.01 & 7.02---Suit for declaration, injunction and recovery of damages--- Special and gen…
2023 PLC(CS) 605 KARACHI-HIGH-COURT-SINDH
RASHEED AHMED VS PAKISTAN TELECOMMUNICATION COMPANY LIMITED "abuse of process"---Connotation---Term "abuse of process" is the intentional use of legal process for an improper purpose incompatible with lawful function of process by someone w…
2023 PLC(CS) 605 KARACHI-HIGH-COURT-SINDH
RASHEED AHMED VS PAKISTAN TELECOMMUNICATION COMPANY LIMITED O.II, R.2---"Cause of action"---Connotation---Expression "cause of action" means a bundle of facts which if traversed, a suitor claiming relief was required to prove for obtaining…
2023 PLC(CS) 700 KARACHI-HIGH-COURT-SINDH
MUHAMMAD IQBAL NASEEM VS PROVINCE OF SINDH art.199---Sindh Shaheed Recognition and Compensation act (XVI of 2014), S.2(f)---Constitutional petition---Declaration of person as shaheed---Scope---Petitioner's son during his service as a police…
2023 PLC(CS) 711 KARACHI-HIGH-COURT-SINDH
MUHAMMAD ASIF HASHIM MUGHAL VS DAWOOD UNIVERSITY OF ENGINEERING AND TECHNOLOGY Deputation---Scope---Petitioner assailed the order whereby he was relieved from service upon belated consideration of being on deputation---Validity---Services o…
2023 PLC(CS) 711 KARACHI-HIGH-COURT-SINDH
MUHAMMAD ASIF HASHIM MUGHAL VS DAWOOD UNIVERSITY OF ENGINEERING AND TECHNOLOGY absorption---Scope---Non-civil servant cannot be absorbed into posts meant to be filed through the competitive process and no person of a non-cadre post can be t…
2023 PLC(CS) 711 KARACHI-HIGH-COURT-SINDH
MUHAMMAD ASIF HASHIM MUGHAL VS DAWOOD UNIVERSITY OF ENGINEERING AND TECHNOLOGY Deputation---Scope---Deputation involves appointment/transfer to a department or service different from the one to which a person originally belongs.
2023 PLC(CS) 767 KARACHI-HIGH-COURT-SINDH
MUHAMMAD SALAHUDDIN VS FEDERATION OF PAKISTAN through Secretary Production and Industries art.64---Qanun-e-Shahadat (10 of 1984), art.133---Civil service---Suit for recovery of outstanding service dues and damages---Limitation---Continuous…
2023 PLC(CS) 796 KARACHI-HIGH-COURT-SINDH
ALTAF HUSSAIN KHUHRO VS FEDERATION OF PAKISTAN S.10---Income Tax Ordinance (XLIX of 2001), S.207---Sales Tax Act (VII of 1990), S.30---Federal Excise Act (VII of 2005), S. 29---Constitution of Pakistan, Arts. 199 & 212---Constitutional peti…
2023 PLC(CS) 889 KARACHI-HIGH-COURT-SINDH
MUHAMMAD ASLAM VS FEDERATION OF PAKISTAN through Secretary Ministry of Commerce S.73---Civil service---Termination from service---Master and servant---Compensation for loss or damage caused by breach of contract---Scope---Plaintiff filed a…
2023 PLC(CS) 961 KARACHI-HIGH-COURT-SINDH
MUHAMMAD ARIF VS FEDERATION OF PAKISTAN through Federal Secretary, Ministry of Petroleum and Natural Resources, Government of Pakistan, Islamabad art.199---Constitutional petition---Employees of Sui Southern Gas Company Limited (SSGCL)---Re…
2023 PLC(CS) 961 KARACHI-HIGH-COURT-SINDH
MUHAMMAD ARIF VS FEDERATION OF PAKISTAN through Federal Secretary, Ministry of Petroleum and Natural Resources, Government of Pakistan, Islamabad art.199---Constitutional jurisdiction of High Court---Fundamental rights---Enforcement---State…
2023 PLC(CS) 1133 KARACHI-HIGH-COURT-SINDH
NADEEM ZUBERI VS CIVIL AVIATION AUTHORITY Departmental proceedings after the retirement of civil servant cannot be continued.
2023 PLC(CS) 1133 KARACHI-HIGH-COURT-SINDH
NADEEM ZUBERI VS CIVIL AVIATION AUTHORITY FR. 54-a---Civil service---Disciplinary proceedings, abatement of---Scope---Fundamental Rule 54-a is clear in its terms that the disciplinary proceedings against an officer abate if the latter attai…
2023 PLC(CS) 1133 KARACHI-HIGH-COURT-SINDH
NADEEM ZUBERI VS CIVIL AVIATION AUTHORITY Pensionary benefits---Scope---Under the pension rules the competent authority reserves the right of recovery from the pension of Government pensioner on account of losses sustained in judicial or de…
2023 PLC(CS) 1133 KARACHI-HIGH-COURT-SINDH
NADEEM ZUBERI VS CIVIL AVIATION AUTHORITY FR. 54-a---Civil service---Disciplinary proceedings, abatement of---Scope---Fundamental Rule 54-a shows that if disciplinary action is initiated against the civil servant and such action remains inc…
2023 PLC(CS) 1133 KARACHI-HIGH-COURT-SINDH
NADEEM ZUBERI VS CIVIL AVIATION AUTHORITY arts. 9 & 199---Constitutional petition---Maintainability---Terms and conditions of service---Release of pensionary benefits---Scope---Department in response to a constitutional petition filed by it…
2023 PLC(CS) 1168 KARACHI-HIGH-COURT-SINDH
S.M. KHALID VS PAKISTAN STEEL MILLS CORPORATION (PVT.) LIMITED Pensionary benefits---Scope---Legitimate and legal right of a person cannot be withheld or denied except under exceptional circumstances where the authority would be required to…
2023 PLC(CS) 1168 KARACHI-HIGH-COURT-SINDH
S.M. KHALID VS PAKISTAN STEEL MILLS CORPORATION (PVT.) LIMITED Inquiry---Scope---To conduct an inquiry or have an inquiry into any allegation of corruption or corrupt practice is not the prerogative of the authority but is a legal obligatio…
2023 PLC(CS) 1168 KARACHI-HIGH-COURT-SINDH
S.M. KHALID VS PAKISTAN STEEL MILLS CORPORATION (PVT.) LIMITED Pensionary benefit---Release of pensionary benefits---Pendency of inquiry---Scope---Plaintiff filed a suit for a direction to the department to release his pension---Contention…
2023 PLC(CS) 1168 KARACHI-HIGH-COURT-SINDH
S.M. KHALID VS PAKISTAN STEEL MILLS CORPORATION (PVT.) LIMITED Plaintiff has to prove his own case hence mere absence of the defendant's evidence shall not absolve the plaintiff from his duty to prove his case.
2023 PLC(CS) 1168 KARACHI-HIGH-COURT-SINDH
S.M. KHALID VS PAKISTAN STEEL MILLS CORPORATION (PVT.) LIMITED art.9---Civil service---Pensionary benefits---Right to life---Scope---Service benefit(s) is not merely an award but is given with an objective to help an old aged person to stan…
2023 CLC 100 KARACHI-HIGH-COURT-SINDH
ATIF SHABBIR VS RIZWAN RIAZ S.56---Injunction when refused---Scope---No absolute restriction on the Court in terms of S.56 of Specific Relief Act, 1877, for not granting injunction in respect of cheques and negotiable instruments where the…
2023 CLC 100 KARACHI-HIGH-COURT-SINDH
ATIF SHABBIR VS RIZWAN RIAZ S.56---Civil Procedure Code (V of 1908), O.XXXIX, Rr.1 & 2---Penal Code (XLV of 1860), S.489-F---Injunction to initiate judicial proceedings---Interim injunction, refusal of---Injunction when refused---Dishonestl…
2023 PLC(CS) 1198 KARACHI-HIGH-COURT-SINDH
Syed QADIR DAD SHAH VS PAKISTAN INTERNATIONAL AIRLINE COMPANY LIMITED (PIACL) S. 42---Civil Procedure Code (V of 1908), O. XXXIX, Rr. 1 & 2---Suit for declaration---Interim injunction, refusal of---Scope---Plaintiff challenged the amendment…
2023 PLC(CS) 1232 KARACHI-HIGH-COURT-SINDH
MOULA BUX KHATIAN VS The SUI SOUTHERN GAS COMPANY LIMITED Service benefits---Deputation and service benefits---Lien on service---Laches---Scope---Plaintiff sought service benefits from the defendant company for the period he had worked ther…
2023 PLC(CS) 1291 KARACHI-HIGH-COURT-SINDH
HAKIM ALI VS SECRETARY EDUCATION AND LITERACY DEPARTMENT, GOVERNMENT OF SINDH, KARACHI art. 201---Decision of High Court binding on subordinate Courts---Scope---Decision of one Division Bench is binding on the other Division Bench on the sa…
2023 PLC(CS) 1291 KARACHI-HIGH-COURT-SINDH
HAKIM ALI VS SECRETARY EDUCATION AND LITERACY DEPARTMENT, GOVERNMENT OF SINDH, KARACHI art.189---Decisions of Supreme Court binding on other Courts---Scope---Disposal of a case as a result of compromise between the parties, without advertin…
2023 PLC(CS) 1291 KARACHI-HIGH-COURT-SINDH
HAKIM ALI VS SECRETARY EDUCATION AND LITERACY DEPARTMENT, GOVERNMENT OF SINDH, KARACHI appointment to advertised post---Scope---Eligibility for appointment---Scope---Petitioners, in response to advertisement for recruitment of Primary Schoo…
2023 PLC(CS) 1310 KARACHI-HIGH-COURT-SINDH
WADHU MAL VS PROVINCE OF SINDH through Principal Secretary Chief Minister Promotion---Pro forma promotion---Scope---Promotion is generally advancement in rank, which is granted based on acquiring extra qualifications or enhancement of skill…
2023 PLC(CS) 1310 KARACHI-HIGH-COURT-SINDH
WADHU MAL VS PROVINCE OF SINDH through Principal Secretary Chief Minister Promotion---Scope---Promotion is not a vested right of a civil servant but where he is fully qualified for the promotion and there is no tangible clog in his service…
2023 PLC(CS) 1310 KARACHI-HIGH-COURT-SINDH
WADHU MAL VS PROVINCE OF SINDH through Principal Secretary Chief Minister Promotion---Pro forma promotion---Scope---Civil servant has a fundamental right to be promoted even after his retirement through awarding pro forma promotion provided…
2023 PLC(CS) 1310 KARACHI-HIGH-COURT-SINDH
WADHU MAL VS PROVINCE OF SINDH through Principal Secretary Chief Minister When the law requires an act to be done in a particular manner, it ought to be done in that manner alone, and such a dictate of law cannot be termed as a technicality…
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