Case Details

Citation(s)
1987 SLG 1367 1987 SLD 1367 1987 PLC 793
Lahore High Court
Writ Petition No. 4080 of 1984 decided on 23rd May, 1987.
FALAK SHER, J

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MUHAMMAD LATIF

VS

TRADING CORPORATION OF PAKISTAN

Law:

Section:

Constitution of Pakistan (1973)-- ---Art.199--Trading Corporation of Pakistan Limited (Service) Rules, 1975, R.18--Termination of services of employee--Termination order passed outside the territorial jurisdiction of High Court--Constitutional petition against termination order passed outside territorial jurisdiction of High Court and legality thereof--Maintainability--Where order of termination of service was passed outside territorial jurisdiction of High Court, Constitutional petition against such order, held, would not be maintainable--Cause of action having arisen outside territorial jurisdiction of High Court, Constitutional jurisdiction could not be exercised by the High Court. (b) Trading Corporation of Pakistan Limited (Service) Rules, 1975-- ---R.18--Constitution of Pakistan (1973), Art. 199--Termination of service in compliance with requirements of R.18--Validity--Termination of service in compliance with requirement of R.18, held, was not open to challenge in constitutional petition. Ch. Latif Rawn for Petitioner. Muhammad Tufail Basra for Respondent. Date of hearing: 23rd May, 1987. JUDGMENT This writ petition is directed against order dated 4-8-1983, whereby services of the petitioner were terminated with immediate effect, and in lieu of the notice period he was monitarilv compensated. 2. Brief facts of the case are that petitioner was appointed as Junior Executive with respondent No.1 on 14-9-1967 after various promotions, while posted as General Manager at Karachi his services were terminated on 4-8-1983. 3. It is contended by the learned counsel for the petitioner that petitioner felt aggrieved by his seniority vis-a-vis one Salim Akhtar, therefore, he had been making various representations, which fetched annoyance to the competent authorities, as a result whereof his services were terminated in a mala fide fashion. 4. I invited the attention of the learned counsel for the petitioner to address this Court as to maintainability of the petition on two counts. Firstly, the territorial jurisdiction of this…
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