SC orders payment of salaries to 397 illegally recruited education dept employees

Justice Gulzar Ahmed asked,“Why aren’t they being relieved of their duties?”

KARACHI: The Supreme Court (SC), on Monday, ordered the Sindh government to pay salaries to over 300 employees illegally appointed in the provincial education department.

The apex court’s Karachi registry made the remarks while hearing a case pertaining to illegal recruitment in the Sindh education department. The SC also dismissed an appeal filed by the provincial education secretary against Sindh Service Tribunal's decision passed in favour of the employees which had asked to release the salaries of 19 employees.



Additional Advocate General Sindh Sarwar Khan admitted before the SC bench that there were illegal appointments in the education department.

“As many as, 397 employees were recruited without post-sanction. The department cannot afford to pay their salaries due to budget constraints,” Khan told the SC Karachi registry.

On this occasion, Justice Gulzar Ahmed asked that “if the employees were recruited illegally, why aren’t they being relieved of their duties?”

“If they were recruited illegally,” he said again, “why have they not been issued show-cause notices?”