2022 LHC 1878
2022 LHC 1878
2022 LHC 1878
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Judgment Sheet
IN THE LAHORE HIGH COURT LAHORE, MULTAN BENCH, MULTAN
JUDICIAL DEPARTMENT
W.P. No.19596 of 2021
Jam Siraj Ahmad Versus Govt. of Punjab, etc.
JUDGMENT
higher post and not his eligibility this Court has, and therefore
(b) of the Punjab Civil Servants Act, 1974. Had the question
any essential eligibility factor this Court mindful of the law laid
petitioner for the second time are bad in law and should be
declared so. Adds that the factor of minor penalty, which, too,
Department and others” (2017 PLC (CS) 578) and [A.P. Naidu
This premise is as bad and erroneous as the first one and has no
and to keep and maintain the same so that the same could be
in the matter.
diligence.
11. This time round the case of the petitioner was placed
follows:-
an extraneous consideration.
13. It may also not be out of place to state here that this
who have been considered for promotion and who have been
imposed and the same has only been brought to bear on the
also reflective of there being more in the matter than meets the
context.
penalty.
(2003 PLC (CS) 1425) this Court reiterated the trite position of
law that minor penalty could not stand in the way of a civil
(CS) 1496) in which a Single Bench of this Court put to rest all
narrative.
Judge
*Waseem*