IN THE SUPREME COURT OF PAKISTAN 
 
(APPELLATE JURISDICTION) 
 
 
 
PRESENT: 
 
 
Mr. Justice Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry, CJ. 
 
 
Mr. Justice Abdul Hameed Dogar 
 
 
Mr. Justice Saiyed Saeed Ashhad 
 
Civil Petition No.788 of 2006 
 
M/S Al-Mahmudia (Pvt) Ltd. 
…Petitioner 
VERSUS 
Pakistan through Secretary M/O Housing & Works, Islamabad etc. 
…Respondents 
 
For the petitioner: 
 
 
 
Mr. Hafiz. S.A. Rehman, Sr. ASC 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Mr. Mehr Khan Malik, AOR 
 
Respondents:  
 
 
 
N.R. 
 
Date of hearing: 
 
 
 
14.9.2006 
 
O R D E R 
 
 
  
Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry, CJ.—This petition has 
been filed against the judgment dated 5.6.2006 passed by Lahore High 
Court, Rawalpindi Bench.  
2. 
  
Learned counsel stated that in view of the judgment in the 
case of Federation of Pakistan through Secretary Education Vs. Pr.Dr. 
Anwar and two others (2006 SCMR 382) the petitioner is entitled for 
hearing before the competent authority by way of submitting his reply. In 
this behalf it may be noted that a larger Bench of this Court earlier 
delivered a judgment in the case of Federation of Pakistan Vs. Muhammad 
Tariq Pirzada and two others  (1999 SCMR 2744) and settled that hearing 
before Section Officer is sufficient. Relying upon the same judgment, 
learned High Court had observed that hearing before Section Officer will 
meet the requirements of Article 32 Order PO(1) 1983.  
2. 
  
We are inclined to agree with the judgment delivered by a 
larger Bench comparing the judgment which has been relied upon by the 
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learned counsel, therefore, the earlier view taken in Tariq Pirzada’s 
case(ibid) is approved and petition is dismissed holding that the High 
Court had rightly declined to interfere in the impugned order following the 
law laid down in the judgment delivered by a larger Bench of this Court. 
 
  
Petition is dismissed and leave declined. 
 
 
Chief Justice 
 
 
Judge 
 
 
Judge 
Islamabad, the 
14th September, 2006 
Nisar/* 
 
 
 
APPROVED FOR REPORTING 
