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| 2025 SLG 4305 2025 SLD 4305 = 2025 PLC 549 |
Civil Petition No. 2330-L of 2019, decided on 23rd October, 2024. (Against the order dated 18.06.2019 passed by Punjab Service Tribunal, Lahore in Appeal No. 3212 of 2016).
Present: Amin-ud-Din Khan, Muhammad Ali Mazhar and Irfan Saadat Khan, JJ
Baleegh-uz-Zaman Ch., Addl.AG, Punjab for Petitioners. Muhammad Anwar Bhanr, Advocate Supreme Court for
Respondent (through video link Lahore). Date of hearing: 23rd October, 2024.
SECRETARY TO GOVERNMENT OF THE PUNJAB, LAW AND PARLIAMENTARY AFFAIRS DEPARTMENT, LAHORE and 2 another
VERSUS
ALI AHMAD KHAN
Law: Punjab Service Tribunals Act, (IX of 1974)
Section: 4
(a) Civil service---
----Deterrent punishment---Object, purpose and scope---Purpose of deterrent punishment is not only to balance gravity of wrong done but also to maintain discipline and decorum in an establishment---Such punishment at times serves as a preventive measure or example for others in the interest of societal reformation.
Postmaster General Balochistan v. Amanat Ali and others 2024 SCMR 1484 = 2024 PLC (C.S) 1051; Postmaster General Sindh Province, Karachi v. Syed Farhan 2022 SCMR 1154; Government of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa v. Nargis Jamal 2022 SCMR 2114 and Divisional Superintendent, Postal Services, D.G. Khan v. Nadeem Raza 2023 SCMR 803 rel.