Payment of salary: Ex-medical superintendent moves court
The former MS claimed to have filed several applications with the Punjab health department for payment of his salary.
Petitioner says that he was victimised after he exposed a junior clerk’s corruption and complained to the Anti-Corruption Establishment against him. PHOTO: FILE
RAWALPINDI:
A former medical superintendent (MS) of Kahuta hospital, who was sacked on corruption charges, has moved a local court for the payment of his salary. His appeal against the dismissal is pending with the Punjab chief minister. The court is likely to take up the petition next week.
Dr Basharat Hussain filed the petition in the Lahore High Court’s (LHC) Rawalpindi bench on Tuesday making Punjab chief secretary, health secretary and executive district officer Rawalpindi as respondents.
He claimed to have filed several applications with the Punjab health department for payment of his salary.
The former MS has maintained in his petition that he was victimised after he exposed a junior clerk’s corruption and complained to the Anti-Corruption Establishment against him. The petitioner said Farooq Satti had links with MPA Col (retd) Shabbir Awan of the PPP and an inquiry against him was initiated after he reported the clerk’s corrupt practices. He claimed the clerk used to misappropriate money collected from patients and prepared bogus entry receipts to forge the record.
Dr Hussain, Farooq Satti, a junior clerk and Nasir Hussain Kiyani, a former dispenser at the Tehsil Headquarters Hospital (THQ) were dismissed last October for allegedly drawing hundreds of thousands of rupees from the hospital account on account of the salary of a terminated dispenser for 26 months, without any record of the transactions in the cash book. They made fictitious purchases extending unauthorised benefits to junior staff.
The hospital staff was dismissed after they were found guilty of corruption and financial embezzlement in a departmental inquiry carried out by MS Holy Family Hospital.
The former MS was directed to deposit Rs4.4 million in the hospital’s account. Satti was directed to pay back Rs3.64 million to the government and Nasir Kiyani was penalised with a demotion, confiscation of five years’ service and made to pay back Rs277,000.
Published in The Express Tribune, January 23rd, 2013.
A former medical superintendent (MS) of Kahuta hospital, who was sacked on corruption charges, has moved a local court for the payment of his salary. His appeal against the dismissal is pending with the Punjab chief minister. The court is likely to take up the petition next week.
Dr Basharat Hussain filed the petition in the Lahore High Court’s (LHC) Rawalpindi bench on Tuesday making Punjab chief secretary, health secretary and executive district officer Rawalpindi as respondents.
He claimed to have filed several applications with the Punjab health department for payment of his salary.
The former MS has maintained in his petition that he was victimised after he exposed a junior clerk’s corruption and complained to the Anti-Corruption Establishment against him. The petitioner said Farooq Satti had links with MPA Col (retd) Shabbir Awan of the PPP and an inquiry against him was initiated after he reported the clerk’s corrupt practices. He claimed the clerk used to misappropriate money collected from patients and prepared bogus entry receipts to forge the record.
Dr Hussain, Farooq Satti, a junior clerk and Nasir Hussain Kiyani, a former dispenser at the Tehsil Headquarters Hospital (THQ) were dismissed last October for allegedly drawing hundreds of thousands of rupees from the hospital account on account of the salary of a terminated dispenser for 26 months, without any record of the transactions in the cash book. They made fictitious purchases extending unauthorised benefits to junior staff.
The hospital staff was dismissed after they were found guilty of corruption and financial embezzlement in a departmental inquiry carried out by MS Holy Family Hospital.
The former MS was directed to deposit Rs4.4 million in the hospital’s account. Satti was directed to pay back Rs3.64 million to the government and Nasir Kiyani was penalised with a demotion, confiscation of five years’ service and made to pay back Rs277,000.
Published in The Express Tribune, January 23rd, 2013.