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PLJ 2018 Tr.C. (Services) 147

PLJ 2018 · Lahore High Court

This case involved a police department employee who had originally been appointed as a Cook in 1999 on a family-support quota, following his father's death during service. In 2004, after applying for recruitment, he was appointed as a Driver Constable by the CCPO, Lahore, and served in that role for over a decade with a clean record.

In 2016, the CCPO withdrew his 2004 appointment order, claiming it was illegal because changing his cadre from Cook to Driver Constable violated rules, citing a Supreme Court of Pakistan judgment that had nullified out-of-turn and ante-dated promotions (often linked to gallantry awards).

The Punjab Service Tribunal disagreed. It held that the Supreme Court's ruling specifically addressed out-of-turn or ante-dated promotions and cases of officials transferred or deputed outside their proper cadre - not straightforward appointments like this one. Since the appellant was never promoted out of turn, nor was his case about deputation or transfer, the Supreme Court judgment did not apply to him. The Tribunal found that the department had wrongly relied on and misapplied that precedent to cancel a legitimate appointment made 12 years earlier.

As a result, the Tribunal set aside the 2016 withdrawal order and restored the appellant to his position as Driver Constable. This case matters because it shows courts scrutinizing whether government departments are correctly applying higher court rulings, protecting employees from having legitimate, long-standing appointments overturned based on precedents that don't actually fit their situation

یہ کیس پولیس ڈیپارٹمنٹ کے ایک ملازم سے متعلق ہے جسے ابتدائی طور پر 1999 میں اس کے والد کی حین ملازمت وفات کے بعد فیملی سپورٹ کوٹے پر کک کے طور پر تعینات کیا گیا تھا۔ 2004 میں، بھرتی کے لیے درخواست دینے کے بعد، سی سی پی او لاہور نے اسے ڈرائیور کانسٹیبل مقرر کیا، اور وہ ایک دہائی سے زائد عرصے تک اس عہدے پر صاف ستھرے ریکارڈ کے ساتھ خدمات انجام دیتا رہا۔

2016 میں سی سی پی او نے اس کا 2004 کا تقرری آرڈر واپس لے لیا، یہ کہتے ہوئے کہ یہ غیر قانونی تھا کیونکہ اس کے کیڈر کو کک سے ڈرائیور کانسٹیبل میں تبدیل کرنا قواعد کی خلاف ورزی تھی۔ اس ضمن میں سپریم کورٹ آف پاکستان کے ایک فیصلے کا حوالہ دیا گیا جس میں باری سے ہٹ کر اور تاریخ سے پہلے کی ترقیوں کو، جو اکثر بہادری کے اعزازات سے منسلک ہوتی ہیں، کالعدم قرار دیا گیا تھا۔

پنجاب سروس ٹریبونل نے اس موقف سے اختلاف کیا۔ اس نے قرار دیا کہ سپریم کورٹ کا فی

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