Mirza DILSHAD BAIG vs ACCOUNTANT-GENERAL, SINDH and others

This matter comes before the Supreme Court of Pakistan via a petition for leave to appeal directed against the order of the Federal Service Tribunal, Islamabad, which dismissed the petitioner's appeal on the ground of being barred by a limitation period of more than seven years. The core legal question concerns the propriety of the Tribunal's dismissal of the appeal on the ground of limitation and the exercise of the power to condone delay. The Court held that the impugned order does not suffer from any legal infirmity justifying interference, noting that the power to condone delay in an appeal filed before the Service Tribunal is to be exercised by the Tribunal itself. Consequently, the petition for leave to appeal was dismissed, laying down the principle that the Service Tribunal possesses the authority to condone delay and its decisions on limitation will not be interfered with absent a legal infirmity.