SC: respect for women is a duty of public servants
The Supreme Court held that public servant conduct rules reach beyond the workplace, dismissing an Intelligence Bureau cook’s challenge to compulsory retirement over alleged violence against his wife.
A two-judge Supreme Court bench rejected Jawad Abbasi’s plea against compulsory retirement from the Intelligence Bureau.
The court held that grave off-duty conduct can amount to misconduct and that respect for women is a service obligation.
Abbasi had been retired after departmental findings under the Civil Servants (Efficiency and Discipline) Rules, 2020.
A criminal court had acquitted him, but the bench said that acquittal does not erase misconduct proved in service proceedings.
The Federal Service Tribunal had earlier upheld the retirement; the Supreme Court dismissed the further challenge.