Law:

Section:

(a) Sind Civil Servants Act (XIV of 1973)-- ---S. 2(1)(a)--Ad hoc appointment--Appointment for a specified period of six months purely on temporary basis and as a stopgap arrangement, held, could be termed as an ad hoc appointment. (b) Sind Civil Servants Act (XIV of 1973)-- ---S. 11--Termination of service--Appointment of appellant made for six months as a stopgap arrangement--Termination of his services without notice after expiry of six months, held, in accordance with law--Merely because case of appellant was recommended for upper age limit, could not mean that his appointment was extended beyond six months. Inamul Haque, for Appellant. A.G. Mangi, A.A.-G. for the State. JUDGMENT MUNAWAR ALI KHAN (CHAIRMAN).--Appellant Ghulam Murtaza Abro was appointed as Librarian at the Ojha Institute of Chest Diseases, Karachi in a temporary post as stopgap arrangement for a period of six months vide order, dated 19th November, 1980. However, his continuance in the service was subject to relaxation of his upper age limit. He was older for the appointment by 8 years, one month and two days. In December, 1984 the Directorate of Health Services took up the case of relaxation of his upper age limit with the Secretary Health Department, Government of Sind. But before the necessary relaxation was made (vide order, dated 29th July, 1985) by the Chief Secretary, his services were terminated w.e.f. 25-5-1985 by the impugned order. The appellant challenged this order of termination in his representation to respondent No. 2. After his representation was rejected, he preferred appeal to the respondent No. 1 but that too failed vide order, dated 5-11-1985. It is in the above factual background that the appellant has come in this appeal before the Tribunal. After hearing the arguments of the learned counsel for the appellant and the learned A.A.-G. the appeal was dismissed by short order, dated 17-9-1986 for reasons to be recorded separately. Following are the reasons in support of the said short order. It was contended by the learned counsel for the appellant that the termination of the appellant's services being without show-cause notice was illegal and in contravention of the…

Deprecated: trim(): Passing null to parameter #1 ($string) of type string is deprecated in /home/digixyei/sldsystempk.com/view/master-layout/view_case.php on line 492