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Constitution of Pakistan, 1973-- ----Art. 199--Constitutional Petition--Children of shaheed--Family claim basis--Recruitment of police constable--Minimum qualification--Barrier of educational standard--Notification--Standard of education was changed--Challenge to--Validity--Notifications having potential to impair existing rights or benefits always apply prospectively, not retrospectively--Minimum educational standard to enlist a driver constable would be matric even for offspring of shaheed or persons applying on family claim basis. THIS ORDER PASSED BY: MAHMOOD AHMED BHATTI, JUSTICE Mst. Ameeran Mai filed this petition under Article 199 of the Constitution of Islamic of Pakistan, 1973, contending that her husband, Muhammad Nawaz was serving in the police department, who passed away on 10.5.2011, while his boots were on. In other words, he died in harness. He was survived by the petitioner and his son, Muhammad Imran. Muhammad Imran filed an application with City Police Officer, Multan, Respondent No. 3 on 5.2.2014 requesting that he be inducted into the police as driver constable. Instead of making any order on the aforesaid application, Respondent No. 3 sent it up to Regional Police Officer, Multan, Respondent No. 2 on 12.6.2014. 2. The grievance made by the petitioner is that she was not crying for the moon, rather she was simply demanding her due. In a nutshell, her case is that when her husband passed away on 10.5.2011, the police department was to take on her son, Muhammad Imran as a constable in the light of Standing Order No. 1 of 2008 as amended in June, 2011. According to her, the subsequent notification issued by the respondents in 2014 whereby the standard of education was changed from Middle into Matric did not apply to the case of her son. 3. Learned counsel for the petitioner has reiterated the contentions raised in the writ petition. It was also urged by him that two other persons were accommodated by the respondents, but the same treatment was not being accorded to the petitioner, which is discriminatory and violative of Article 25 of the Constitution of Islamic Republic of Pakistan, 1973. In support of his contentions, he has placed reliance…

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