THE WATER AND POWER DEVELOPMENT AUTHORITY Through Its Chairman vs MUHAMMAD YOUSAF

This petition for leave to appeal was filed by the Water and Power Development Authority (WAPDA) challenging an order related to the removal of an employee. The primary legal question before the Supreme Court was whether an appeal is competent against orders for the removal of employees passed by the petitioner Authority under the provisions of the WAPDA Act, 1958. The Supreme Court, relying on its own recent authoritative precedent established in a series of similar petitions, including WAPDA v. Aftab Ahmad Warsi (1986 SCMR 18), held that the matter was already settled. Consequently, the Court dismissed the petition, affirming that the legal position regarding the competency of appeals against such removal orders had been definitively resolved in previous rulings. The judgment underscores the principle of stare decisis, confirming that where a specific legal question regarding the statutory powers of the Authority has been authoritatively decided by the Court, subsequent petitions raising identical issues must be dismissed in accordance with that established precedent.