Case Details

Citation(s)
2014 SLG 324 2014 SLD 324 2014 PLC 1256
Lahore High Court
Writ Petitions Nos. 7072, 4118, 4651 4652, 8828, 11906, 17989, 30917 of 2013 and 504 of 2014, decided on 5th June, 2014.
MRS. AYESHA A. MALIK, J

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TAHIRA YASMIN and others

VS

GOVERNMENT OF THE PUNJAB and others

Law:

Section:

(a) Civil service--- ----Contract appointment---Regularization---Regularization of one post would not entitle persons on another post to demand regularization and on the same terms. (b) Civil service--- ----Contract appointment---Regularization---Not a vested right---Contract appointees did not have a vested right of regularization. 2013 SCMR 304 rel. (c) Constitution of Pakistan--- ----Art. 199---Constitutional petition---Posts for a particular program/project---Contract appointment---Regularization---Not a vested right---Regularization of petitioners/contract employees only after recommendation by Public Service Commission---Similarly placed contract appointees from other departments regularized without recourse to Public Service Commission---Whether discrimination---Contention of petitioners/contract employees that they should not be discriminated against, and their services should also be regularized without recourse to Public Service Commission---Validity---Policy of Government was that contract appointees on project/programme posts would be regularized on the recommendations of the Commission---Contract employees from other departments who had been regularized without recourse to Commission were holding posts different from the ones held by petitioners---When considering discrimination in regularization, each post had to be seen, and not the regularization of every post in the department---Petitioners did not have a vested right for regular appointment---Besides petitioners never moved the competent authority for regularization---Constitutional petition was dismissed accordingly. 2013 SCMR 304 ref. ORDER MRS. AYESHA A. MALIK, J.--- This Writ Petition decides upon the issues raised in W.Ps. Nos.7072, 4118, 4651 4652, 8828, 11906, 17989, 30917 of 2013 and 504 of 2014. 2. There are two common issues that have been raised in the instant petitions. The first issue is that the petitioners were appointed on contract posts. Their contracts were extended in 2012 for a period of five years. However through an arbitrary and unilateral act, the respondents cancelled the five years extension and reduced the contract period to one year. This issue was heard and decided…
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