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Summary: PLJ 2002 SC 54 [Appellate Jurisdiction] Present QAZI MUHAMMAD FAROOQ AND JAVED IQBAL JJ MUHAMMAD SARFRAZ and 174 others - Petitioners versus GOVERNMENT OF THE PUNJAB through Secretary Education Department Civil Secretariate Lahore etc - Respondents CPs for Leave to Appeal No 1084 - Arts 199 212 185 (3) - Dismissal of petitioners Constitutional petition by High Court in regard to termination of their services on the ground of lack of jurisdiction - Petitioners appointment as lecturers on adhoc basis - Term adhoc appointment means appointment of a duly qualified person made otherwise than in accordance with prescribed method of recruitment pending recruitment in accordance with such method - Adhoc appointments belong to the family of officiating temporary and until further order appointments - AdIOC employee is civil servant as he holds civil post in connection with the affairs of a Province and he is not included in the persons excluded from the definition of Civil Servant and is governed by Punjab Civil Servants (Efficiency and Discipline) Rules 1975 having not been excluded from its operation as well as S 10 of Punjab Civil Servants Act 1974 having been described as a civil servant qua termination of service - Petitioners were therefore civil servants within the contemplation of Punjab Service Tribunals Act 1974 - Existence of terms and conditions of service has not been disputed by petitioners as the same were incorporated in letters of their appointment on adhoc basisIn all cases relating to terms and conditions of service remedy available to aggrieved Civil Servant is by filing appeal befor Service Tribunal and not by invoking writ jurisdiction of High Court - Question raised by petitioners relating to certain remarks by High Court would be determined by Service Tribunal with open mind and un influenced by any observation made in impugned judgment on merits of to appeal was refused in circumstances [Pp 59 60 61 62 64] A B C D E 1999 SCMR 2786 1991 SCMR 1041 1999 SCMR 819 1993 SCMR 609 1998 PLC (CS) 70 1982 SCMR 46 1991 SCMR 1041 1983 SCMR 859 1993 SCMR 2337 ref Mr AK Dogar ASC for Petitioners (in CPs 1084 to 1165 - L 1173 to 1179 - L 1330 - L 1374 - L 1385 - L 1986 - L 1388 - L 1690 - Land 1710 - L2001) Mr Arif Chaudhry ASC for the Petitioners (in CPs 1188 to 1196 - L 1244 to 1246 - L 1261 to 1264 - L 1432 to 1434 - L and 1474 - L2001) Mr SM Zafar Sr ASC for Petitioners (in CPs 1255 to 1258 - L 1271 to 1274 - L 1320 to 1329 - L 1373 - L 1384 - L 1423 - L 1426 - L and 1792 - L2000) SyedNajamul Hassan Kazmi ASC and Mr MA Qureshi AOR for Petitioners (in CPs 1346 to 1372 - L and 1389 - L2001) Mr Muhammad ul - Islam AOR (absent) for Petitioners (in CP - 1260 - L2001) Mr CM Lateef AOR petitioner (in CP - 1387 - L2001) Petitioners in person (in CP - 16202001) Cfi Mehdi Khan Mehtab AOR (absent) for Petitioner (in CPs - 1855 to 1857 - L2001) Ch AkhtarAH AOR for Petitioners (in CPs - 1565 15702001) Mr Tariq Mehmood Khokkar Addl AG Punjab for Respondents (on notice in all petitions)Judgement Result:Petition dismissed.

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