Verdict on deputed tutors soon

IHC directs federal education ministry, FDE to submit report

ISLAMABAD:

The top court of the federal capital has asked the education authorities to file report on the petition filed by teachers working on deputation in Islamabad who do not want to be repatriated.

Hundreds of teachers from other provinces had been appointed in Islamabad on deputation; however, after years of service in the capital, they have refused to go back maintaining that they have now settled here. At least 80 teachers had filed petitions at IHC seeking court order for their merger in federal capital educational institutions as they had completed more than five years here on deputation.

The Federal Directorate of Education (FDE) has started sending repatriation letters to deputationists. Islamabad High Court (IHC) on Monday directed the Ministry of Federal Education secretary and the Federal Directorate of Education (FDE) director general (DG) to submit a final report before the next hearing on the application to stop the return of teachers from the provinces on deputation.

A single-member bench of IHC comprising Justice Mian Gul Hassan Aurangzeb heard the case on Monday Nadeem Khakwani, the counsel representing the ministry, and Asif Gujjar who represented the petitioners appeared in the hearing. The education ministry secretary and FDE DG requested the court to give 20 days to make a final decision regarding deputed teachers.

At this, the court directed to submit a report before the next hearing. The court said to the petitioner to let the FDE and ministry decide on the matter. The petitioner's counsel pleaded with the court to not dispose of the petition. The court accepted the demand of the petitioner and kept the application under adjudication. The hearing of the case was adjourned until the end of January.

Earlier, Justice Aurangzeb had dismissed 12 petitions of deputation teachers seeking confirmation in federal capital’s educational institutions. He heard 32 petitions moved by teachers who had come on deputation from provinces and now wanted to stay in the capital permanently. FDE had started sending repatriation letters to deputationist teachers around two years ago.

Educators having moved to the capital under wedlock policy were the most distressed, whereas others opting to work in the capital after having acquired NOC from their parent departments were also unwilling to go back. Major Laraib murder case Meanwhile, IHC issued notices to the respondents on the appeal against the sentences in the Major Laraib murder case.

A two-member divisional bench of IHC comprising Justice Amir Farooq and Justice Ghulam Azam Qambrani presided over the case on Monday. During the hearing on the petition filed by the convicts including Baitullah and Siddique Gul against the death sentence and life imprisonment awarded by a lower court, the petitioners asked to revoke the verdict of the lower court issued on December 15 in which Baitullah was awarded the death sentence keeping aside requirements of justice while Gul was awarded life imprisonment. After hearing the arguments, the court has issued notices to the parties for the reply. Special Services Group’s (SSG) Major Muhammad Laraib was shot in the head by unidentified gunmen as he sat on a bench at Islamabad’s Sector G-9/1 park on November 21, 2019 along with a friend Aleena. The police had later arrested two suspects Bait Ullah and Gul Siddique through mobile phone tracing.