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Master and servant------ Constitution of Pakistan (1973), Art. 185(3)---Contractual employment--­Termination from service----Principle of master and servant ---Applicability--­Services of petitioners were governed by the terms and conditions of contract which they executed at the time they entered the employment of the Insurance Corporation---Services could be terminated after giving 15 days' notice or salary in lieu of notice under the contract of service---Termination order was assailed before High Court in exercise of its jurisdiction under Art.199 of the Constitution---High Court dismissed the petition and Intra-Court Appeal was also dismissed---Contention of the petitioners was that they had been discriminated as a large number of trainee executives similarly placed as the petitioners had been reinstated in service---Corporation counsel stated at the bar that no discriminatory treatment had been meted out to the petitioners and if any person similarly placed as the petitioners, was reinstated, the same treatment would be meted out to the petitioners--­Validity---Where the services of the petitioners were governed by the terms and conditions of the contract, the order of termination did not suffer from any legal infirmity---Subject to the statement made at the bar, on behalf of the respondent Supreme Court declined to interfere with the passed by High Court---Leave to appeal was refused. Secretary, Government of Punjab through Secretary, Health Department, Lahore v. Raizul Haq 1997 SCMR 1552 and Agha Salim Khurshid v. Federation of Pakistan 1998 SCMR 1930 ref. Ch. Mehdi Khan Mehtab, Advocate-on-Record for Petitioners. Sher Zaman Khan, Deputy Attorney-General for Respondents Date of hearing: 6th January, 1999. JUDGMENT IRSHAD HASAN KHAN, J.---Through this common judgment we propose to dispose of Civil Petitions Nos.317-L to 325-L of 1998, 412-L and 413-L of 1998, 472-L of 1998 and 736-L and 737-L of 1998, arising out of a consolidated judgment dated 29-9-1997, passed by Lahore High Court, Lahore in ICA. No. 665 of 1997 in 'various writ petitions filed by the petitioners herein, as the points of law and facts involved in these petitions, are similar. 2. The…

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