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2003 PLC (C.S.) 909

AMJAD ALI, ASSISTANT SUB INSPECTOR (RETIRED) vs SENIOR SUPERINTENDENT

Citation2003 PLC (C.S.) 909
CourtSupreme Court of Pakistan
Judge(s)Faqir Muhammad Khokhar, Rana Bhagwan Das
ResultPetition dismissed

' RANA BHAGWANDAS, J.---Petitioner serving as A.S.-I. Police was compulsorily retired from service by SSP Multan which action was confirmed in appeal and revision by DIG Police Multan and IG of Police Punjab.

2. Allegation against the petitioner was that Mr. Anwar Jamil Bailiff of the Lahore High Court recovered detenue Ghulam Sarwar from the illegal confinement of the petitioner at Police Station Jalal Pur Piranwala. Liability of the petitioner was proved to the satisfaction of a learned Judge of the Lahore High Court who besides releasing the detenue from his wrongful confinement directed the petitioner to pay a sum of Rs,2,000 by way of compensation.

3. Petitioner was proceeded against after issuance of a show-cause notice and providing an opportunity of hearing in which he could not controvert the accusation against him. He did not impugn the correctness of the findings of fact recorded by the High Court and was thus rightly found guilty imposing the penalty of compulsory retirement from service.

4. After having heard learned counsel for the petitioner and Ms. Roshan Ara, learned Assistant Advocate General for the respondents and perusing the record as well as the impugned judgment, we do not and any legal infirmity in the impugned judgment or the disciplinary proceedings against the petitioner. In our view, there has been no miscarriage of justice and no substantial question of law of general public importance is involved in this petition.

5. Resultantly, this petition fails and is hereby dismissed.

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