Unpaid dues: SHC orders payment of arrears to its employees

The bench accepted the application filed by SHC hawaldar, Muhammad Nusrat Ali, and twelve other officials.

KARACHI:

A division bench of the Sindh High Court (SHC) has ordered the finance department to pay court staff and officers from grades 1 to 17 nineteen months’ worth of arrears.

On Wednesday, the bench accepted the application filed by an SHC hawaldar, Muhammad Nusrat Ali, and twelve other officials. They had been granted raises some 19 months ago, and received their payments but have not yet been paid the arrears that have accumulated since then. They maintained that their petition was disposed of back in 2009.

Advocate Rasheed A Razvi represented the court staff and told the court that the officials are hard pressed due to price hikes and some of them have to pay back the loans that they had taken to meet their day-to-day expenses. It was their right and it was denied by the state, he submitted.

The bench ordered the finance department to make the payment within two months.

Published in The Express Tribune, April 28^th, 2011.