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2023 PLC(CS) 440 SUPREME-COURT
DIVISIONAL SUPERINTENDENT POSTAL SERVICES JHANG VS SIDDIQUE AHMED Misappropriation of money orders by forging signatures of payees----Corruption, misconduct and inefficiency---Admission of guilt---Dismissal from service---Service Tribunal c…
2023 PLC(CS) 440 SUPREME-COURT
DIVISIONAL SUPERINTENDENT POSTAL SERVICES JHANG VS SIDDIQUE AHMED Misappropriation of public money---Dismissal from service--- Scope---Misappropriation of amount either meager or huge resulted in breach of trust which was reposed in a gover…
2023 PLC(CS) 464 SUPREME-COURT
MUHAMMAD NAEEM VS FEDERATION OF PAKISTAN S. 2(1)(b)---Government Servants (Efficiency and Discipline) Rules 1973, R. 2(1)--- Government Servants (Conduct) Rules 1964, R. 3(1)(b)---Penal Code (XLV of 1860), Ss. 21 & 161---Term 'public servan…
2023 PLC(CS) 464 SUPREME-COURT
MUHAMMAD NAEEM VS FEDERATION OF PAKISTAN S. 3(2)---Civil Servants Act (LXXI of 1973), S. 2(1)(b)---Employees of National Bank of Pakistan (NBP)---As per section 3(2) of the National Bank of Pakistan Ordinance, 1949, NBP is a body corporate,…
2023 PLC(CS) 464 SUPREME-COURT
MUHAMMAD NAEEM VS FEDERATION OF PAKISTAN S. 3(2)---Civil Servants Act (LXXI of 1973), S. 2(1)(b)---Constitution of Pakistan, Art. 199---Employees of National Bank of Pakistan (NBP)---Recourse to writ jurisdiction of the High Court in servic…
2023 PLC(CS) 489 SUPREME-COURT
MUSHTAQUE AHMED MEMON VS ARSHAD HUSSAIN BHUTTO S. 3---Constitution of Pakistan, Arts. 25(1), 27(1) & 240(2)---Seniority---Discrimination in service of Pakistan---Scope and applicability of the Sindh Civil Servants (Regularization of Ad hoc…
2023 PLC(CS) 501 SUPREME-COURT
DEAN/CHIEF EXECUTIVE, GOMAL MEDICAL COLLEGE, MEDICAL TEACHING INSTITUTION, D.I. KHAN VS MUHAMMAD ARMAGHAN KHAN Preamble---Sindh Service Tribunals Act (XV of 1973), S. 3-B [as amended by the Sindh Service Tribunals (Amendment) Act, 1991]---K…
2023 PLC(CS) 501 SUPREME-COURT
DEAN/CHIEF EXECUTIVE, GOMAL MEDICAL COLLEGE, MEDICAL TEACHING INSTITUTION, D.I. KHAN VS MUHAMMAD ARMAGHAN KHAN arts. 212(2), proviso & 212(3)---Provincial Service Tribunals (Extension of Provisions of the Constitution) act (XXXII of 1974),…
2023 PLC(CS) 550 SUPREME-COURT
MUHAMMAD IMRAN VS MUHAMMAD SAJAN PANHWAR S. 27(5a)---Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of Public Sector Generation Holding Company Limited (GHCL) --- Qualification for appointment---High Court ordered removal of CEO of GHCL ('the petitioner') o…
2023 PLC(CS) 563 SUPREME-COURT
MUHAMMAD SIDDIQUE VS Senior EXECUTIVE VICE-PRESIDENT, PTCL Voluntary Separation Scheme (VSS)---Emoluments---Calculation of emoluments on basis of "Last basic pay" after availing VSS---Documentary evidence (Last Pay Certificate and Initial P…
2023 PLC(CS) 592 SUPREME-COURT
(Applications for impleadment in C.As. 1172 and 1178 of 2020 respectively) VS State Preamble---Police Rules, 1934---Service matters relating to police---Interference by Courts in limited circumstances only---Disputes, if any, amongst the po…
2023 PLC(CS) 592 SUPREME-COURT
(Applications for impleadment in C.As. 1172 and 1178 of 2020 respectively) VS State Preamble---Police force---Promotion and career progression---Organizational justice---Importance of organizational justice in the police force stated.
2023 PLC(CS) 592 SUPREME-COURT
(Applications for impleadment in C.As. 1172 and 1178 of 2020 respectively) VS State art. 185(3)--- Leave refusing order of the Supreme Court---Precedential value---Leave-refusing order which neither decides any question of law nor enunciate…
2023 PLC(CS) 592 SUPREME-COURT
(Applications for impleadment in C.As. 1172 and 1178 of 2020 respectively) VS State arts. 4(1), 14(1), 18, 25, 37 & 38---Civil service---Organizational justice---Concept of organizational justice and its importance stated.
2023 PLC(CS) 592 SUPREME-COURT
(Applications for impleadment in C.As. 1172 and 1178 of 2020 respectively) VS State R. 12.2(3)---Inspectors serving in (Punjab) Police---Seniority---Final seniority list of Inspectors will be reckoned from the date of confirmation of the of…
2023 PLC(CS) 629 SUPREME-COURT
ABDUL QUDOOS VS COMMANDANT FRONTIER CONSTABULARY, KHYBER PAKHTUNKHWA, PESHAWAR S. 4(1)---Constitution of Pakistan, Arts. 199---Constitutional power of High Court to remit a case to the Service Tribunal---Scope---High Court in its writ juris…
2023 PLC(CS) 629 SUPREME-COURT
ABDUL QUDOOS VS COMMANDANT FRONTIER CONSTABULARY, KHYBER PAKHTUNKHWA, PESHAWAR S. 4(1)---appeal filed by employee of Frontier Constabulary (F.C.)---Service Tribunal, jurisdiction of---Scope---F.C. employees are civil servants and, in a matt…
2023 PLC(CS) 629 SUPREME-COURT
ABDUL QUDOOS VS COMMANDANT FRONTIER CONSTABULARY, KHYBER PAKHTUNKHWA, PESHAWAR Fault/mistake of Court---No person should suffer because of a delay in procedure or the fault of the Court---Act of the Court shall prejudice no one---Court is u…
2023 PLC(CS) 629 SUPREME-COURT
ABDUL QUDOOS VS COMMANDANT FRONTIER CONSTABULARY, KHYBER PAKHTUNKHWA, PESHAWAR Scope---Mistake/error of court---Power of court to rectify its mistake---Doctrine of ex debito justitiae, refers to the remedies to which a person is entitled as…
2023 PLC(CS) 629 SUPREME-COURT
ABDUL QUDOOS VS COMMANDANT FRONTIER CONSTABULARY, KHYBER PAKHTUNKHWA, PESHAWAR S. 4(1)---Constitution of Pakistan, Art. 199---Constitution petition filed by employee of Frontier Constabulary (F.C.) remitted to the Service Tribunal after con…
2023 PLC(CS) 655 SUPREME-COURT
DIVISIONAL SUPERINTENDENT POSTAL SERVICES FAISALABAD VS KHALID MAHMOOD O. XII, R. 6---Discretionary power of the court to pass a decree based on the admission made by the parties without determining any questions raised by the parties---Pur…
2023 PLC(CS) 655 SUPREME-COURT
DIVISIONAL SUPERINTENDENT POSTAL SERVICES FAISALABAD VS KHALID MAHMOOD Back benefits, grant of--- Employer-department making a commitment before the Tribunal to pay back benefits---Approbate and reprobate, doctrine of---Applicability---Befo…
2023 PLC(CS) 694 SUPREME-COURT
IJAZ BADSHAH VS SECRETARY, ESTABLISHMENT DIVISION, GOVERNMENT OF PAKISTAN, CABINET BLOCK, CONSTITUTION AVENUE, ISLAMABAD S. 6---Civil service---Dismissal from service---Unauthorized leave---Civil servant in possession of five different pass…
2023 PLC(CS) 694 SUPREME-COURT
IJAZ BADSHAH VS SECRETARY, ESTABLISHMENT DIVISION, GOVERNMENT OF PAKISTAN, CABINET BLOCK, CONSTITUTION AVENUE, ISLAMABAD Penalty imposed by the competent authority---Proportionality and reasonableness---Judicial review of penalty by the Sup…
2023 PLC(CS) 694 SUPREME-COURT
IJAZ BADSHAH VS SECRETARY, ESTABLISHMENT DIVISION, GOVERNMENT OF PAKISTAN, CABINET BLOCK, CONSTITUTION AVENUE, ISLAMABAD 'Departmental inquiry' and 'award of punishment'---Scope---Primary objective of carrying out a departmental inquiry is…
2023 PLC(CS) 694 SUPREME-COURT
IJAZ BADSHAH VS SECRETARY, ESTABLISHMENT DIVISION, GOVERNMENT OF PAKISTAN, CABINET BLOCK, CONSTITUTION AVENUE, ISLAMABAD Gross misconduct---Punishment, award of---Scope and purpose---Rationale of deterrent punishment in the case of gross mi…
2023 PLC(CS) 707 SUPREME-COURT
Syed ARSHAD ALI VS SECRETARY MINISTRY OF HOUSING AND WORKS, ISLAMABAD R. 6 (as it existed before being amended by SRO No. 572(I)2009, dated 16-06-2009)---Inter-se seniority---'Person appointed by transfer' and 'person appointed by promotion…
2023 PLC(CS) 724 SUPREME-COURT
ZARAI TARAQIATI BANK LIMITED VS SARFRAZ KHAN JADOON Out of turn promotions---Illegal promotion orders set aside by the Supreme Court---Prospective effect---Recovery/adjustment of financial benefits paid to such promotees---Held, that in the…
2023 PLC(CS) 724 SUPREME-COURT
ZARAI TARAQIATI BANK LIMITED VS SARFRAZ KHAN JADOON 'Hereby'---Meaning.
2023 PLC(CS) 740 SUPREME-COURT
GOVERNMENT OF PAKISTAN through Secretary Establishment Division, Islamabad VS MUHAMMAD ISMAIL Statutes/notifications/executive and administrative orders---Operated prospectively unless retrospective operation was expressly provided for ther…
2023 PLC(CS) 740 SUPREME-COURT
GOVERNMENT OF PAKISTAN through Secretary Establishment Division, Islamabad VS MUHAMMAD ISMAIL Policy providing quota for employing children of Government employees, who died in service---Prospective effect---Respondent's father died in the…
2023 PLC(CS) 763 SUPREME-COURT
GOVERNMENT OF PUNJAB through Secretary Cooperative Societies Department, Lahore VS ASAD ABBAS appointment---Candidates on waiting list---advertised posts falling vacant after selected candidate/s refusing to join---When some of the selected…
2023 PLC(CS) 763 SUPREME-COURT
GOVERNMENT OF PUNJAB through Secretary Cooperative Societies Department, Lahore VS ASAD ABBAS art. 91---Judicial proceedings, sanctity of---Judicial proceedings had sanctity---Presumption of correctness was attached to such proceedings befo…
2023 PLC(CS) 780 SUPREME-COURT
The CHAIRMAN AGRICULTURE POLICY INSTITUTE, MINISTRY OF NATIONAL FOOD SECURITY AND RESEARCH, GOVERNMENT OF PAKISTAN, ISLAMABAD VS ZULQARNAIN ALI Natural justice, principles of---Scope---Before taking any adverse action, the affected party mu…
2023 PLC(CS) 780 SUPREME-COURT
The CHAIRMAN AGRICULTURE POLICY INSTITUTE, MINISTRY OF NATIONAL FOOD SECURITY AND RESEARCH, GOVERNMENT OF PAKISTAN, ISLAMABAD VS ZULQARNAIN ALI Termination of service---Verbal order of termination---Legality---Termination of service by a ve…
2023 PLC(CS) 780 SUPREME-COURT
The CHAIRMAN AGRICULTURE POLICY INSTITUTE, MINISTRY OF NATIONAL FOOD SECURITY AND RESEARCH, GOVERNMENT OF PAKISTAN, ISLAMABAD VS ZULQARNAIN ALI appointment and termination of service orders---Written orders---Due to negligent and unprofessi…
2023 PLC(CS) 794 SUPREME-COURT
GOVERNMENT OF KHYBER PAKHTUNKHWA through Secretary Health, Civil Secretariat, Peshawar VS Dr. LIAQAT ALI S. 7(1)--- Power of Tribunal to modify punishment imposed by the competent departmental authority---Scope---Provincial Service Tribunal…
2023 PLC(CS) 813 SUPREME-COURT
JAWAD AHMAD MIR VS Prof. Dr. IMTIAZ ALI KHAN, VICE CHANCELLOR, UNIVERSITY OF SWABI, DISTRICT SWABI, KHYBER PAKHTUNKHWA Stopgap appointment---Scope and principles relating to a filling a post by way of stopgap arrangement explained.
2023 PLC(CS) 813 SUPREME-COURT
JAWAD AHMAD MIR VS Prof. Dr. IMTIAZ ALI KHAN, VICE CHANCELLOR, UNIVERSITY OF SWABI, DISTRICT SWABI, KHYBER PAKHTUNKHWA S. 12---Vice Chancellor---No vested right to extension in tenure---Vice Chancellor who has completed his tenure cannot cl…
2023 PLC(CS) 813 SUPREME-COURT
JAWAD AHMAD MIR VS Prof. Dr. IMTIAZ ALI KHAN, VICE CHANCELLOR, UNIVERSITY OF SWABI, DISTRICT SWABI, KHYBER PAKHTUNKHWA art. 199(1)(b)(ii)---Writ of quo warranto---Scope, principles and pre-requisites relating to a writ of quo warranto state…
2023 PLC(CS) 831 SUPREME-COURT
ALI BUX SHAIKH VS The CHIEF SECRETARY, GOVERNMENT OF SINDH, KARACHI R. 12-a---Date of birth of civil servant recorded at the time of joining Government service---Interpolations---Inquiry by competent authority---Rule 12-a of the Sindh Civil…
2023 PLC(CS) 860 SUPREME-COURT
AMANULLAH KHAN VS HOSPITAL DIRECTOR, KTH (MTI), PESHAWAR 'Upgradation of post' and 'promotion'---Distinction---Promotion involves advancement in rank, grade or a footstep en route to a higher position, whereas the facility or benefit of upg…
2023 PLC(CS) 860 SUPREME-COURT
AMANULLAH KHAN VS HOSPITAL DIRECTOR, KTH (MTI), PESHAWAR Upgradation of a post---Scope---In order to justify the upgradation, the Government is required to establish that the department needs restructuring, reform or to meet the exigency of…
2023 PLC(CS) 860 SUPREME-COURT
AMANULLAH KHAN VS HOSPITAL DIRECTOR, KTH (MTI), PESHAWAR Upgradation of a post---Scope---Upgradation of a post is not a vested right but it stems from a policy decision for its implementation for the particular set of employees as per schem…
2023 PLC(CS) 884 SUPREME-COURT
MUHAMMAD NAWAZ KHAN VS INSPECTOR GENERAL OF POLICE, PUNJAB, LAHORE Concurrent departmental and criminal proceedings---Acquittal in criminal proceedings---Effect---Civil servant cannot escape departmental proceedings or consequences thereof…
2023 PLC(CS) 891 SUPREME-COURT
HABIB BANK LIMITED VS MEHBOOB RABBANI Preamble---Whenever a Court is adjudicating a civil suit, it is regulated by the requisite laws and civil procedure applicable to it at the time the suit is filed and adjudicated upon.
2023 PLC(CS) 891 SUPREME-COURT
HABIB BANK LIMITED VS MEHBOOB RABBANI First Sched. & art. 22---Bank employee---Wrongful dismissal---Suit for damages---Limitation---Respondent-employee was dismissed from service on 3.10.1991 and his review petition dated 19.4.1992 was reje…
2023 PLC(CS) 891 SUPREME-COURT
HABIB BANK LIMITED VS MEHBOOB RABBANI S. 73---Breach of contract---Damages, award of---Burden of proof---Onus would lie on a plaintiff or claimant to prove that there had been a contract entered into between the parties; that there had been…
2023 PLC(CS) 891 SUPREME-COURT
HABIB BANK LIMITED VS MEHBOOB RABBANI R.39---Contract Act (IX of 1872), S. 73---Bank employee---Wrongful dismissal---Suit for damages---Breach of employment contract by employer---Employee denied the right of an opportunity to defend himsel…
2023 PLC(CS) 891 SUPREME-COURT
HABIB BANK LIMITED VS MEHBOOB RABBANI R. 39---Contract Act (IX of 1872), S. 73---Bank employee---Wrongful dismissal---Suit for damages---Breach of employment contract by employer---Employee denied the right of an opportunity to defend himse…
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