Case Details

Citation(s)
2017 SLG 952 2017 SLD 952 2017 PLJ 222
Lahore High Court
W.P. No. 1175 of 2014, decided on 8.11.2016. Date of hearing: 8.11.2016.
MUHAMMAD QASIM KHAN, JUSTICE
Mr. Muhammad Iqbal Mohal, Advocate for Petitioners. Kh. Salman Mehmood, Assistant Advocate Genral with Ghulam Sughran Deputy District Education Officer (Women), Pasroor for
Respondents.

MST. SHUGUFTA PARVEEN AND anothers

VS

DISTRICT EDUCATION OFFICER (EE) SIALKOT AND 3 others- --RespondentS

Law:

Section:

Constitution of Pakistan, 1973-- ----Art. 199--Constitutional petition--Appointment as ESE on contract basis were withdrawn--Allegations of--Difference between marks in original certificate/degree as compared with documents submitted with applications--Contentions--Copies of valid and genuine documents were attached and after verification of documents, appointment orders were issued--Termination without conducting inquiry as required by law--Remained on duties and received salaries before issuance of termination order--Educational marks were correctly written--Validity--Appointing authority denied signatures on appointment letters issued in favour of petitioners and produced by them but in absence of any other appointment letter and comparison of signatures of officer and recording of his statement in presence of petitioners and allowing petitioners to cross-examine authority, make whole process as doubtful--Appointment letters were rightly issued to petitioners after preparing of merit list and it may be possible due to some clerical mistake merit list has been wrongly prepared and now to save skin of officers petitioners have been made escape goat by leveling false allegations against them--Petitioners have been replaced by new one, as department has not initiated any inquiry in that respect and has not fixed responsibility on any person in this regard--Procedure at time of interview original documents are examined by authority and it is not possible that authority has not verified marks on application forms after examining original documents at time of interview--During recruitment process some negligence was committed by any of officials while calculating and typing marks for preparing merit list, but at late stage petitioners could not be penalized for same, especially when no one other is claiming appointment against posts of petitioner, being higher on merit and petitioner otherwise fulfil qualification criteria prescribed in recruitment policy. THIS ORDER PASSED BY: MUHAMMAD QASIM KHAN, JUSTICE:---.--- At the outset, learned counsel for the petitioners verbally seeks permission to add "Province of the Punjab through Secretary Education Government of the…
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