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Provincial Employees Social Security Ordinance (X of 1965)---------S. 23(1)---Constitution of Pakistan (1973), Arts.25 & 185(3)---Issuance of notices for increased demand by Institution to employers---Appellants (employers) took exception to such demand being discriminatory for having been made from employers, who had not approached Courts against earlier demand notices issued under S.23(1) of Provincial Employees Social Security Ordinance, 1965---Appeal filed by appellants was accepted by High Court---Validity---Such act on the part of Institution was certainly violative of Art.25 of the Constitution---High Court had not committed illegality in giving same treatment to appellants (employers) as had been meted out to other employers placed in similar circumstances---Supreme Court dismissed petition and refused leave to appeal. Shamas Textile Mills and others v. Province of Punjab and 2 others 1999 SCMR 1477 ref. Ch. Muhammad Mujahid Ahmad, Advocate Supreme Court for petitioners. Imtiaz Rashid Siddiqui, Advocate Supreme Court with Sh. Salahuddin, Advocate-on-Record for Respondents. Date of hearing: 6th March, 2003. ORDER TANVIR AHMED KHAN, J.--- Leave to appeal is sought against the judgments dated 18-2-2002 and 26-2-2002 whereby a learned Single Judge of the Lahore High Court, Multan Bench, Multan, allowed the F.A.Os. filed by the respondents in terms already laid down in F.A.O. No.384 of 2001 decided on 14-1-2002. The facts briefly narrated are that the petitioner institution issued demand notices under section 23(1) of the Social Security Ordinance, 1965 (hereinafter referred to as the Ordinance), for increased demand in respect of Special Allowance paid to the employees. Such notices were challenged by different employers before the Lahore High Court and thereafter the matter was set at rest through a judgment reported as Shams Textile…

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