KARACHI: A chosen few from 55 recently promoted police officers could stand to become DIGs in just one year, argued one additional inspector general who has gone to court.
AIG Amir Farooqui has joined a long list of officers who have been going to court to challenge what they call out-of-turn or shoulder promotions. In recent months, the judges’ desks have been piled high with these petitions.
On Tuesday, Justice Maqbool Baqar and Justice Muhammad Shafi Siddiqui of the Sindh High Court heard AIG Farooqui’s lawyer Irfan Aziz advocate.
The AIG has challenged a correction that the Sindh police chief issued on the basis of a court judgment. This judgment was the outcome of yet another petition, filed by beneficiary Azad Khan.
The AIG argues that the IG has taken refuge in this judgment to promote an entire group of 55 officers. The government has allowed provincial police service officers to be absorbed into the Police Service of Pakistan (PSP) cadre.
This would benefit a chosen few and they would become DIGs in just one year as their promotions were backdated from as far back as 1999, the petitioner submitted. He maintained that if this happens his seniority would be prejudiced and his juniors would be at higher posts.
The judges ordered for notices to be issued for May 2.
AIG Farooqui named in his petition the police chief, the secretary of the Services and General Administration as well as officers Syed Ghayasuddin Rashidi, Abdul Ahad Sangri, Pir Fareed Jan Sarhindi, among others.
Published in The Express Tribune, April 11th, 2012.
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