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Petitioner: MUNAWAR HUSSAIN VS Respondent: GOVERNMENT OF THE PUNJAB
1992 P L C (C
1992 P L C (C.S.) 244
[Service Tribunal Punjab]
Present: Muhammad Mehmud Aslam Pirzada, Chairman and Malik Abdul Aziz, Member
Dr. MUNAWAR HUSSAIN
Versus
GOVERNMENT OF THE PUNJAB through Chief Secretary, and another
Appeal No. 217 of 1989, decided on 2nd August, 1989.
(a) Punjab Civil Servants Act (VIII of 1974)---
----S. 2(1)(a)---Punjab Civil Servants (Efficiency and Discipline) Rules, 1975-- Ad hoc appointee---Termination of services---Locus standi--Services of appellant an ex-Medical Officer on ad hoc appointment were terminated on account of misconduct---Appellant accepted offer of appointment fully knowing that his appointment was purely ad-hoc and subject to termination at any time without giving any notice and this ad-hoc appointment would not confer any right for regular appointment to same post---Appellant, thus, had no vested legal rights to continue in service once the Department had resorted to a fresh recruitment through prescribed method--An ad-hoc appointee, had no locus standi.
1982 SCMR 877 rel.
(b) Punjab Civil Servants Act (VIII of 1974)---
----S. 2(1)(a)---Ad-hoc appointment not made in accordance with prescribed manner was liable to be terminated immediately on availability of recommendee of Public Service Commission---When appellant accepted ad hoc appointment which was only a stopgap arrangement, respondent employer, held, was under no legal obligation to regularise his service.
Muhammad Siddique Ch.'s case PLD 1974 SC 393 ref.
Ch. Mushtaq Masood for Appellant.
A.G. Humayun, DA. for Respondents.
Date of hearing: 2nd August, 1989.