Deceased inspector’s son asks to be employed under quota for son

Petition to be heard by full bench on November 22.

KARACHI: A police inspector’s son moved the Sindh High Court seeking a ruling that will allow him to be employed as a civil servant under the ‘son quota’. The petition is to be heard by a division bench on November 22.

Zahid Hussain Abbasi, son of late Abdul Sattar Abbasi, an inspector and supervisory investigating officer, filed a petition through his lawyer, Moeen Azhar Siddiqui, asking to be given a government job as his father passed away while in service in January 2009.

Siddiqui told the bench comprising Justice Gulzar Ahmed and Justice Imam Bux Baloch that, under Sindh Civil Servants on appointments, promotions and transfer rules, 1974 Rule 11-A, “where a civil servant dies in service or is declared invalidated or incapacitated for further service, one of his children shall be provided job in any pay scale from one to 10 in the department in which the deceased civil servant was working”.

The petitioner submitted that the respondents, the home secretary and Provincial Police Officer - PPO or IG Sindh - have refused to put his case before the chief minister.

He asked the court to implement a notification issued on February 9 by the Sindh government and allow his appointment as an ASI, BPS 9, with the Sindh Police.

Siddiqui, the state’s lawyer and the bench noted that, Justice Shahid Anwar Bajwa had delivered judgements in two identical petitions.

The bench then ordered its office to place these judgments on record and adjourned the hearing till November 22.

Published in The Express Tribune, October 31^st,  2011.