Paperwork protocols: SHC orders KESC to take back officers
Eighty-eight sacked staffers of the Karachi Electric Supply Company (KESC) got their jobs back on a court’s order.
KARACHI:
Eighty-eight sacked staffers of the Karachi Electric Supply Company (KESC) got their jobs back on a court’s order on Friday. Justice Munib Akhtar of the Sindh High Court ordered the power utility to pay their arrears in 15 days. However, on a request by KESC’s lawyer Khalid Javed Khan, the judge allowed them ten days to file an appeal before the Supreme Court. Barrister Salahuddin Ahmed represented the sacked plaintiffs, Alauddin and 87 others. He argued that they were sacked without being issued any show-cause notices. He relied upon a judgment by the SHC in the case of 110 other officers of the same batch of 300 who were sacked.
Published in The Express Tribune, April 21st, 2012.
Eighty-eight sacked staffers of the Karachi Electric Supply Company (KESC) got their jobs back on a court’s order on Friday. Justice Munib Akhtar of the Sindh High Court ordered the power utility to pay their arrears in 15 days. However, on a request by KESC’s lawyer Khalid Javed Khan, the judge allowed them ten days to file an appeal before the Supreme Court. Barrister Salahuddin Ahmed represented the sacked plaintiffs, Alauddin and 87 others. He argued that they were sacked without being issued any show-cause notices. He relied upon a judgment by the SHC in the case of 110 other officers of the same batch of 300 who were sacked.
Published in The Express Tribune, April 21st, 2012.