Promotion furore: Six policemen challenge AIG’s appointment

Petitioners claimed AIG Hayat is grade-20 officer of Police Service, but has been appointed as Karachi AIG in BS-21.

KARACHI:

The appointment of the new city police chief, Additional Inspector General (AIG) of Police Shahid Hayat, was challenged by six senior police officials in the Sindh High Court on Monday.

A petition was filed jointly by DIG AD Khawaja, Bashir Memon, AIG Bashir Memon, DIG Sanaullah Abbasi, DIG Azhar Rashid and DIG CID Dr Ameer Ahmed Shaikh. They cited the provincial chief secretary, the IG of Sindh police and the Karachi AIG as respondents. The petitioners claimed that AIG Hayat is a grade-20 officer of Police Service of Pakistan, but he has been appointed as the Karachi AIG in BS-21 on his own pay scale.

Hayat is junior when compared to the petitioners, but has been given promotion to grade-20, which was a violation of the Rule 8-B of the Civil Servants (Appointment, Promotion and Transfer) Rules, 1973, they alleged. They pleaded to the court to declare AIG Hayat’s promotion to grade-21 as illegal, and declare all orders passed by Hayat as the AIG of Karachi to have no lawful bearing. The petitioners also urged the court to suspend the notification of Hayat’s appointment.

Published in The Express Tribune, October 1^st, 2013.