Law: Constitution of Pakistan, 1973

Section: 199

Constitution of Pakistan (1973)---   ----Art. 199---Constitutional petition---Voluntarily Severance Scheme introduced by National Bank of Pakistan (NBP) for officers of defunct National Development Finance Corporation (NDFC) after its amalgamation with the Bank---Benefits mentioned in such Scheme reduced by Government---Constitutional petition filed by some officers against such reduction accepted by High Court---Benefit of such earlier of High Court claimed by other officers, who were not party thereto---Validity---High Court while disposing of earlier constitutional petition observed that Bank could grant similar benefits in interest of equity and fairness, which had been granted to other employees in similar circumstances---Present petitioners were also entitled to same benefits, which had been provided to other personnel under such Scheme---High Court accepted constitutional petition filed by present petitioners in circumstances.    Hameed Akhtar Niazi v. The Secretary Establishment Division, Government of Pakistan and others 1996 SCMR 1185 rel. ORDER This Constitutional petition has been filed by 15 officers of NDFC (now defunct), which was amalgamated with NBP on 1-11-2001 and on the basis of such amalgamation, voluntarily severance scheme was effected on 1-6-2001 and was sent to the Government for approval vide letter dated 26-10-2001. The Government reduced the benefits mentioned in the scheme against which the now defunct NDFC vide letter dated 27-10-2001 moved the Government and when the Government did not respond, petition was filed by the clerical staff being CP No.2299/2001, which was allowed by this court vide order dated 4-5-2002. In that petition, the names of the present petitioners were mentioned in the annexure and this court ordered that relief cannot be granted on the basis of annexure and directed that a separate petition should be filed by the present petitioners, therefore, present petition was filed. However, present petition was dismissed by this court vide order dated 8-3-2001 on the basis that it was ousted under Article 212 of the Constitution of Islamic Republic of Pakistan and the jurisdiction of this case lay with…

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