KARACHI – The Sindh High Court restricted the Sindh government on Monday from removing those officials, whose posting on absorption was declared illegal by the same court, till April 29. Allowing a request of the officials including Chaudhry Muhammad Ali, a bench headed by Justice Shahid Anwar Bajwa ordered the provincial government not to follow the SHC’s prior directive till the given date.
Earlier on April 14, the SHC had declared two dozen government high ranking officers’ posting illegal as they were absorbed from other departments in the Sindh Government’s Secretariat Group and ordered to send them back to their previous parent departments. The officers appealed through their counsels Rasheed A Rizvi and Anwar Mansoor Khan, requesting the court to restrict the government from following the SHC’s prior order.
They submitted that they will move the Supreme Court with an appeal against the high court’s order. The judgement was passed on a constitutional petition filed by the province’s 50 additional and deputy secretaries. The officials who were appointed on absorption included Chaudhry Muhammad Ali, Rasool Bux Phulpoto, Ali Azhar Baloch, Dr Dabeer Ali Hasan, Major Aftab Lodhi and Dr Shafqat Abbassi.
