Alleged discrimination: Retired employee accuses CAA of forcing him out of ‘his house’

Petitioner claims many retired employees, their families are living in CAA facility.

KARACHI:

A Civil Aviation Authority employee has accused the authority of harassing and discriminating against him to force him out of his house. The employee, Shaikh Muhammad Qayyum, lives in the CAA residential units.

He retired in February last year as a helper, he maintained before a Sindh High Court division bench on Saturday. He has applied for his son to get a job at the CAA under the employee quota and also for the re-allotment of the house to his son, once he is employed by the authority.

While his requests are pending, he is being harassed into leaving the house since January 2011 and he is being sent notices one after the other, Qayyum alleged. The petitioner named an employee who was living in the colony and his son and a daughter were also given separate houses by the CAA in the same residential area. He also cited other examples of many employees enjoying the residential perk even after retirement.

Qayyum asked for an inquiry into housing allotments by the CAA and its accommodation policy. After this, a preliminary hearing summoned the CAA and other respondents. The bench issued notices to the deputy attorney-general and other respondents while restraining the CAA from disturbing the petitioner.



Published in The Express Tribune, May 22^nd, 2011.