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2021 PLD 571 SUPREME-COURT
Mian IRFAN BASHIR VS The DEPUTY COMMISSIONER (D.C.), LAHORE arts. 184(3) & 199---'Judicial review', 'Judicial activism' and 'Judicial overreach'---Meaning and distinction. Citation Name: 2021 PLD 571 SUPREME-COURTBookmark this Case Mian IRF…
2021 PLD 579 SUPREME-COURT
Mst. KULSOOM RASHEED VS NOMAN ASLAM S. 25-a (2-B)---Transfer of case from one Province to another by the Supreme Court---Scope---Perusal of section 25-a (2-B) of the Family Courts act, 1964 revealed that the Supreme Court may order the tran…
2021 PLD 581 SUPREME-COURT
Mst. SAMRANA NAWAZ VS M.C.B. BANK LTD. O.XXI, R. 90, Second Proviso---Second proviso to O.XXI R.90, C.P.C.---Interpretation and scope---Sale of mortgaged property---Judgment debtor objecting to sale---Question as to whether a 20% deposit of…
2021 PLD 595 SUPREME-COURT
JUSTICE QAZI FAEZ ISA VS The PRESIDENT OF PAKISTAN arts. 19-a, 184(3), 186, 188, 191 & 209(5)(b)---Broadcasting or live streaming of court proceedings---Constitutionality and permissibility---Review petitions before the Supreme Court challe…
2021 PLD 313 SUPREME-COURT
GOVERNMENT OF BALOCHISTAN VS ABDUL RAUF art. 224 (1a)---Caretaker Government/Cabinet, powers of---Scope---Caretaker Government/Cabinet could not take policy decisions and permanent measures including recruitments, making appointments, trans…
2021 PLD 600 SUPREME-COURT
NAVEED ASGHAR VS State Conviction---Conjectures and probabilities---Not the substitute of proof---In criminal cases finding of guilt against an accused person could not be based merely on the high probabilities that may be inferred from evi…
2021 PLC(CS) 47 SUPREME-COURT
GOVERNMENT OF THE PUNJAB VS MUHAMMAD ARSHAD S. 4--- Service Tribunal---Jurisdiction---Retribution, concept of---Applicability--- Punishment, quantum of--- Civil servant, after departmental proceedings was awarded punishment of reduction to…
2021 PLC(CS) 65 SUPREME-COURT
Malik UBAIDULLAH VS GOVERNMENT OF PUNJAB arts. 9, 14(1) & 25(1)---Persons with disabilities---Fundamental rights under the Constitution---Scope---Constitution, as a whole, did not distinguish between a person with or without disabilities; i…
2021 PLC(CS) 107 SUPREME-COURT
GHOUS BUKHSH VS COMMANDER (A&Q) CHOLISTAN RANGERS, RAHIM YAR KHAN S. 15(1)---Member of Pakistan Rangers---Absence from duty for 12 days without a valid reason and authorization---Misconduct---Dismissal from service converted into removal fr…
2021 PLC(CS) 125 SUPREME-COURT
GOVERNMENT OF KHYBER PAKHTUNKHWA, WORKERS WELFARE BOARD VS RAHEEL ALI GOHAR S.11-B(3)---Contractual employees of Workers' Welfare Board, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa ('the Board') employed in technical institutes---Regularization in service---Legalit…
2021 PLC(CS) 163 SUPREME-COURT
FAYYAZ HUSSAIN VS FEDERATION OF PAKISTAN through Secretary Ministry of Interior, Islamabad S. 4(2)---absorption of deputationist---Constable in Provincial Traffic Police ('the petitioner') sent to Federal Investigation agency ('FIa') on dep…
2021 PLC(CS) 207 SUPREME-COURT
SENIOR GENERAL MANAGER/CEO, PAKISTAN RAILWAYS HEADQUARTERS, LAHORE VS ASIF ALI Cl. 214(G)---apprentice employees---annual increments, entitlement to---apprentice loco cleaners in Pakistan Railways sent for T-4 training course for a period o…
2021 PLC(CS) 268 SUPREME-COURT
DIRECTOR GENERAL OF INTELLIGENCE AND INVESTIGATION, F.B.R., ISLAMABAD VS MUHAMMAD ASLAM KHAN R. 8-B---appointment/promotion on acting charge basis---Scope---Rule 8-B of Civil Servants (appointment, Promotion and Transfer) Rules, 1973 provid…
2021 PLC(CS) 277 SUPREME-COURT
The DIVISIONAL SUPERINTENDENT, PAKISTAN RAILWAYS, RAWALPINDI VS Syed IRSHAD ALI ABID art. 25---Employee of Pakistan Railways---Scheme for encouraging higher education---Employees with higher education entitled for advance increments---Withd…
2021 PLC(CS) 292 SUPREME-COURT
FEDERATION OF PAKISTAN through Secretary, Ministry of Energy (Power Division), Islamabad VS SHAFIQ UL HASSAN art. 199---Civil service---Interim order passed by High Court in its constitutional jurisdiction---Scope and principles---Grant of…
2021 PLC(CS) 319 SUPREME-COURT
SECRETARY ESTABLISHMENT DIVISION, ISLAMABAD VS TAHAWWAR AHMAD F.R. 17---Civil servant granted pro forma promotion to BS-22 on orders of the Federal Service Tribunal---Allotment of additional plot, entitlement to---Civil servant who was gran…
2021 PLC(CS) 341 SUPREME-COURT
GOVERNMENT OF KHYBER PAKHTUNKHWA VS JAWAD ALI Ss. 2(b) & 3---Project employees---Regularization in service---Scope---Contractual employees of a private company (Sarhad Rural Support Programme) working on temporary project posts in an outsou…
2021 PLC(CS) 362 SUPREME-COURT
Dr. ZOHARA JABEEN VS MUHAMMAD ASLAM PERVAIZ S. 7---Punjab Civil Servants (Appointment and Conditions of Service) Rules, 1974, R. 8---District Population Welfare Officers---'Promotees' and 'direct appointees'---Seniority---Scope---Direct app…
2021 PLC(CS) 385 SUPREME-COURT
NATIONAL BANK OF PAKISTAN VS ZAHOOR AHMED MENGAL Employee admittedly absent from duty---Disciplinary proceedings---Regular inquiry---Scope---Where the fact of absence from duty was admitted, there was no need for holding of a regular enquir…
2021 PLC(CS) 405 SUPREME-COURT
FEDERATION OF PAKISTAN through Secretary Establishment Division, Islamabad VS SHAFQAT-UR-REHMAN RANJHA Rr. 2(2), 5(iv) & 6a(2)---Disciplinary proceedings---Inquiry officer recommending exoneration of civil servant---Prime Minister ('the aut…
2021 PLC(CS) 420 SUPREME-COURT
AJMIR SHAH, EX-SEPOY VS The INSPECTOR-GENERAL, FRONTIER CORPS KHYBER PAKHTUNKHWA Where a law required doing of something in a particular manner it had to be done in the same manner and not otherwise. Citation Name: 2021 PLC(CS) 420 SUPREME-…
2021 PLC(CS) 440 SUPREME-COURT
Syed MUDDASAR SHAH TERMIZI VS PESHAWAR HIGH COURT, PESHAWAR S. 8---Contract employees subsequently regularized in service---Seniority---Scope---Seniority could not be calculated for contract employees form the date of their initial contract…
2021 PLC(CS) 456 SUPREME-COURT
DIRECTOR GENERAL, NATIONAL SAVINGS CENTRAL DIRECTORATE OF NATIONAL SAVING 32-N SECTOR G-6, ISLAMABAD VS MUHAMMAD SULTAN S. 11a--- absorption of civil servants rendered surplus---absorption/induction into service of a person who had not comp…
2021 PLC(CS) 480 SUPREME-COURT
SECRETARY, ESTABLISHMENT DIVISION, GOVERNMENT OF PAKISTAN, ISLAMABAD VS IMTIAZ AHMAD MALIK, DIRECTOR ANTI-CORRUPTION ESTABLISHMENT, SAHIWAL Rr. 7 & 11(2)(c)---Encadred police officer from a Province, appointment of---Inter se seniority amon…
2021 PLC(CS) 502 SUPREME-COURT
CHAIRMAN PAKISTAN ORDNANACE FACTORIES BOARD, WAH CANTT. VS Dr. NAVEEDA RAUF F.R. 84, appendix No. 9 ['the Study Leave Rules']---Study Leave---Pay and allowances, entitlement to---Medical officer (respondent) working in Pakistan Ordnance Fac…
2021 PLC(CS) 519 SUPREME-COURT
GOVERNMENT OF BALOCHISTAN VS ABDUL RAUF art. 224 (1a)---Caretaker Government/Cabinet, powers of---Scope---Caretaker Government/Cabinet could not take policy decisions and permanent measures including recruitments, making appointments, trans…
2021 PLC(CS) 531 SUPREME-COURT
DEPUTY POSTMASTER GENERAL, CENTRAL PUNJAB, LAHORE VS HABIB AHMED S. 5(1)---Federal Service Tribunal, powers of---Structured exercise of jurisdiction---Scope---Although the Tribunal had the discretion to interfere in questions of quantum of…
2021 PLC(CS) 544 SUPREME-COURT
MANZOOR ELAHI VS PRESIDENT, UBL S. 5(1)---Service Tribunal, judgment of---Non-implementation of judgment by the employer---Abatement of judgments of the Tribunal in view of the case reported as Muhammad Mubeen-us-Salam v. Federation of Paki…
2021 PLC(CS) 560 SUPREME-COURT
SHAKEEL AHMAD ZAIDI VS SECRETARY, HIGHER EDUCATION, GOVERNMENT OF PUNJAB, LAHORE Locus poenitentiae, principle of---Applicability and exception---Special Allowance paid to employees through an unlawful order, when they were not entitled for…
2021 PLC(CS) 570 SUPREME-COURT
MUHAMMAD KHALIQ MANDOKHAIL VS GOVERNMENT OF BALOCHISTAN through Chief Secretary, Civil Secretariat Quetta R. 11---alteration of date of birth in service record---Disallowed---Mala fide of Education Board in changing date of birth---academic…
2021 PLC(CS) 587 SUPREME-COURT
The DISTRICT POLICE OFFICER, MIANWALI VS AMIR ABDUL MAJID Concurrent disciplinary and criminal proceedings against a civil servant---Acquittal in criminal proceedings---Whether such acquittal could be a ground for reinstatement in service--…
2021 PLC(CS) 602 SUPREME-COURT
DIRECTOR GENERAL FEDERAL DIRECTORATE VS TANVEER MUHAMMAD R. 4(1)(b)(iv)---allegation of physical assault, using verbal abuse and threatening a colleague---Penalty of 'Dismissal from service' converted into 'withholding of increment for a pe…
2021 PLC(CS) 611 SUPREME-COURT
DIVISIONAL SUPERINTENDENT, POSTAL SERVICES, FAISALABAD VS MUHAMMAD ZAFARULLAH S. 5--- Federal Service Tribunal ('the Tribunal'), powers of---Scope---Penalty of dismissal from service imposed upon civil servant (respondent) by the department…
2021 PLC(CS) 643 SUPREME-COURT
GOVERNMENT OF KHYBER PAKHTUNKHWA VS Syed SADIQ SHAH arts. 25 & 38(e)---Dis-proportionality in salary of various classes of employees--- Discrimination--- Scope--- Employees of High Court (BPS 17 to BPS 19) drawing Special Judicial allowance…
2021 PLC(CS) 679 SUPREME-COURT
DIRECTOR GENERAL, DIRECTORATE GENERAL OF TRAINING AND RESEARCH (INLAND REVENUE), LAHORE VS IJAZ YOUNAS S.5---Federal Service Tribunal ('the Tribunal'), powers of---Scope---Unauthorized continuous absence from duty---Penalty of dismissal fro…
2021 PLC(CS) 697 SUPREME-COURT
REGIONAL OPERATION CHIEF, NATIONAL BANK OF PAKISTAN, HUMAN RESOURCE DEPARTMENT, REGIONAL OFFICE, SARGODHA VS Mst. NUSRAT PERVEEN S. 4---Constitution of Pakistan, Arts. 4, 10, 14, 23 & 24---Appeal filed by a civil servant in the Federal Serv…
2021 PLC(CS) 721 SUPREME-COURT
GOVERNMENT OF KHYBER PAKHTUNKHWA VS LIAQUAT ALI Ss.2(b) & 3---Contract employee---Regularization in service---Respondent was employed on contract basis as an Electrician in the Benevolent Fund Cell of Provincial Administration Department, a…
2021 PLC(CS) 738 SUPREME-COURT
QAISAR KHAN VS GOVERNMENT OF KHYBER PAKHTUNKHWA Reglns. 20(c) & 20(g)---Domicile certificate---Renunciation of domicile by implication---Scope---Respondent got employment as Lecturer on the domicile of "Tribal area" but subsequently, he app…
2021 PLC(CS) 747 SUPREME-COURT
GOVERNMENT OF KHYBER PAKHTUNKHWA VS SHAHZAD IQBAL Ss. 2(b) & 3---Project employees seeking regularization in service---Respondents were appointed on contractual basis in Provincial Skill Development Centers by the Technology Up Gradation an…
2021 PLC(CS) 762 SUPREME-COURT
MUHAMMAD SHARIF VS INSPECTOR GENERAL OF POLICE, PUNJAB, LAHORE Period spent by a civil servant away from duty due to dismissal from service or absence from duty, etc.---"Leave without pay" or "leave of the kind due" granted to a civil serva…
2021 PLC(CS) 828 SUPREME-COURT
MUHAMMAD NAEEM KHAN VS PRESIDENT, NATIONAL BANK OF PAKISTAN Promotion---Expiry of penalty period---After the period of penalty of an official had expired, the same did not operate as an impediment in his future prospects of promotion if oth…
2021 PLC(CS) 848 SUPREME-COURT
GOVERNMENT OF KHYBER PAKHTUNKHWA VS ZAHOOR AHMED KHALIL Ejusdem generis, rule of---Scope---Provisions of a statute and Rules had to be read in their context and unless otherwise provided or there were compelling and lawful reasons to do oth…
2021 PLC(CS) 898 SUPREME-COURT
DIVISIONAL SUPERINTENDENT PAKISTAN RAILWAYS, RAWALPINDI VS Syed USMAN ALI Temporary Labour Appointments/daily wagers in Pakistan Railways---Regularization in service---Whether date of regularization would operate from the date of initial ap…
2021 PLC(CS) 921 SUPREME-COURT
KHUSHAL KHAN KHATTAK UNIVERSITY VS JABRAN ALI KHAN Contractual employees--- Regularization in service---No vested right---Contractual employees had no vested right to seek regularization unless there was legal and statutory basis for the sa…
2021 PLC(CS) 940 SUPREME-COURT
CONTROLLER MILITARY ACCOUNTS (PENSION) LAHORE CANTONMENT VS MUHAMMAD SABIR (DECEASED) R. 11---Pakistan Army Act (XXXIX of 1952), S. 176-A---Army reservist---Minimum pension, entitlement to---Army reservists were fixed rated pensioners and t…
2021 PLC(CS) 955 SUPREME-COURT
DIVISIONAL SUPERINTENDENT, POSTAL SERVICES, GUJRANWALA VS MUHAMMAD ARIF BUTT Misappropriation of public money---Dismissal from service---Penalty of dismissal from service imposed upon respondent-postman by the departmental authorities was c…
2021 PLC(CS) 979 SUPREME-COURT
PUNJAB PUBLIC SERVICE COMMISSION VS HUSNAIN ABBAS appointment--- Legitimate expectancy, doctrine of---Scope---Candidate's claim to appointment based on the doctrine of legitimate expectancy could not be allowed to override or overshadow ano…
2021 PLC(CS) 1003 SUPREME-COURT
PAKISTAN TELECOMMUNICATION COMPANY LTD. VS MUHAMMAD SAMIULLAH S. 34---Constitution of Pakistan, Art. 199(5)---'Person' within the meaning of Art. 199(5) of the Constitution---Pakistan Telecommunication Company Limited (PTCL) was a person wi…
2021 PLC(CS) 1030 SUPREME-COURT
KHALILULLAH KAKAR VS PROVINCIAL POLICE OFFICER, BALOCHISTAN R.2(b)---Balochistan Police Act (X of 2011), S.3---Balochistan Police Force---Separate seniority lists prepared for Deputy Superintendents of Police ('DSPs') belonging to different…
2021 PLC(CS) 1060 SUPREME-COURT
The PROVINCE OF PUNJAB through Secretary, Finance Department, Government of the Punjab, Lahore VS KANWAL RASHID S.18(2)---Punjab Civil Services Pension Rules, 1963, R. 4.10---Family pension, entitlement to---Unmarried daughter of deceased c…
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