Sindh High Court building. PHOTO: EXPRESS
A division bench, headed by Justice Syed Hasan Azhar Rizvi, granted a temporary stay on a petition filed by police inspectors, who had won litigation regarding promotions before the service tribunal.
The petitioners, including Inspector Kambhoo Khan Mari and others, had approached the high court against the police authorities over the issue of promotions to the next rank.
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They said that after the decision given by the Supreme Court against out-of-turn promotions, they had approached the Sindh Service Tribunal in Karachi by way of filing appeals. They claimed that the tribunal had allowed the appeals in their favour, adding that now the execution appeal to get those orders implemented is fixed on August 6.
The petitioners said that the respondents, including the chief secretary, the home secretary and the police inspector-general, issued on July 13 a notification for promotion of the senior-most inspectors (BPS-16) to the rank of DSPs (BPS-18). A departmental promotion committee meeting is being convened to consider the candidates. The petitioners had filed an urgent application to the service tribunal to challenge the likely promotions, but due to vacations the matter could not be fixed.
Therefore, they challenged the promotions in the high court which has already issued notice to the provincial advocate-general. The state counsel, Asadullah Lashari, requested for time to file the relevant authorities' comments. The judges observed that the execution appeal is fixed before the service tribunal on August 6. The bench restrained the authorities from acting upon the notification dated July 13 regarding promotions.
Published in The Express Tribune, July 29th, 2015.
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