Law: Constitution of Pakistan, 1973

Section: 185(3)

(a) Limitation--- ----Condonation of delay---For condonation of delay, each days delay has to be explained with proper justification. (b) Civil service--- ----Post of Hardware and Network Technician in police force---Provisional appointment letter, withdrawal of---Appointee booked in a murder case before joining duty---Appointee subsequently acquitted from the case on basis of compromise---Whether appointee had right to appointment on basis of provisional appointment letter---Held, that although the petitioner (appointee) was provisionally offered the job but he had not joined the same---When in the very (provisional) appointment letter, it was clearly mentioned that the appointment of the petitioner shall be subject to verification of his character, the petitioner could not claim a right to appointment on the basis of the such appointment letter---Petition for leave to appeal was dismissed and leave was refused. Petitioner was provisionally offered job for the post of Hardware and Network Technician in police force on contract basis subject to fulfilling certain conditions, which had been duly mentioned in the provisional appointment letter. One of the said conditions was that the appointment shall be subject to verification of character/antecedents/ educational certificates and in case anything adverse was reported, the contract appointment shall be liable to be terminated. Thus, the competent authority had reserved its right to withdraw the appointment letter/terminate the petitioner from service in case anything adverse about his character came on the record even at belated stage. Admittedly a criminal case under sections 302, 324, 148 and 149, P.P.C. was registered against the petitioner, which ultimately ended in compromise. The petitioner was not acquitted on merits and it was only the compromise between the parties, which was made basis for his acquittal. The police was a disciplined force, whose only job was to maintain law and order situation in the society irrespective of nature of job and to apprehend the criminals, who violated the law of the land. Keeping in view the role of the police in a society, only the people of highest moral standard with…

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