A judicial magistrate on Monday granted three-day physical remand of former IT consultant of eight education boards of Punjab, Dr Majid Naeem to the Anti-Corruption Establishment (ACE) in a corruption case booked against him on the Punjab government’s directions.
The court directed the ACE staff to produce Dr Majid before court on January 12, completing the needed investigation in the allegation against him.
The First Information Report (FIR) was registered by ACE against Dr Majid after a Lahore High Court (LHC) inquiry commission, tasked to probe the fiasco of computerised online system in eight BISEs of Punjab, held him guilty. The commission, in its report, asked the government to initiate proceedings against him and the BISEs chairmen.
Dr Majid is facing charges of corruption, misappropriation, financial and administrative irregularities and failure of the online results system that he had prepared for the examination system of eights BISEs.
He was arrested by a team of ACE late Sunday night from his residence after he was released from a National Accountability Bureau (NAB) case.
LHC summons Dr Mujahid on taking PU’s acting charge: Justice Ahmed Farooq on Monday summoned Punjab University Acting Vice Chancellor (VC) Dr Mujahid Kamran personally before the court on January 13 in a petition challenging the notification for his appointment as the acting PU VC after his retirement on January 2.
The court also issued notice and sought reply till the next hearing from the Punjab Higher Education secretary in the matter, asking him to explain why the respondent had been appointed as the acting VC.
The court was a hearing civil miscellaneous (CM) application filed by Dr Mughees-ud-Din, a candidate for the slot of PU VC, through his counsel Asad Manzoor Butt in his pending petition seeking a restraining order against any arrangement to keep Dr Mujahid in the VC slot after his retirement on January 2 since the Supreme Court had declared extension after retirement from service as illegal.
LHC orders CCPO to
recover eye-witness of a case: The Lahore High Court on Monday ordered the capital city police officer (CCPO) to produce before the court on Tuesday (today) a detainee who was an eye-witness in a kidnap-cum-murder case and had allegedly been picked by the accused party with active assistance of the Misri Shah Police.
Justice Iftikhar Hussain Shah passed the order to the CCPO on a petition filed by Tariq Mehmood seeking recovery of his maternal uncle Muhammad Asif, allegedly picked by the Misri Shah Police on the behest of an influential accused party involved in the kidnap-cum-murder of a 13-year-old boy.
The court, after hearing the arguments, directed the CCPO to produce the said person before the court on January 10 (today).
Court stays changing PLD publishers’ terms for service: Senior Civil Judge Muhammad Azeem Akhtar has restrained the website of Pakistan Legal Decisions (PLD) publishers from changing the terms and conditions for its online accounts and directed to submit a written reply on the next date of hearing.
The court passed the order on a petition filed by law firm Surridge & Beecheno Advocates, Corporate consultants & IP attorneys against Oratier Technology (Pvt) limited that runs the website for online accounts of the PLD.
LHC fines Rs 50,000 to Sialkot DCO for dispossessing cinema owner: The LHC on Monday fined Rs 50,000 to the Sialkot district coordination officer (DCO) for illegally dispossessing a cinema owner from his property, directing him to restore the possession to the petitioner. The court also set aside two notifications, issued by Board of Revenue (BOR) on December 30, 2009 and May 18, 2011.
Justice Syed Mansoor Ali Shah passed the orders on a petition, filed by Muhammad Nazir Ahmad Cheema through Rizwan Mushtaq. The court fined the DCO Rs 50,000.
LHC seeks report from KEMU VC on loopholes in radiology exams: The LHC on Monday issued directions to the King Edward Medical University vice chancellor to submit a report within four weeks about the irregularities pointed out by Society of Fellows of Radiology President Prof Dr Mansoor Bakhtiari in the MD postgraduate examination of radiology held at the university in 2010 and 2011.
Justice Ijaz-ul Ahsan passed the order on a petition filed by Bilal Bashir advocate. The petitioner alleged that the KEMU appointed examiners with minor degrees to hold the major degree exams and one of the examiners in 2010, Prof Dr Nasir Zaidi, was a student enrolled in the same course and had failed in the said exam in 2011.
Notices issued on
dispenser’s plea for clinical practice: Lahore High Court Justice Farrukh Arfan on Monday issued notices for January 16 to Punjab Health Department director general (DG) and Punjab health secretary on a petition seeking permission for qualified dispensers of the public hospitals to do their private clinical practice like doctors. The petition was filed by Punjab Association of Dispensers through Ghaus Muhammad and Iftikhar Hussain, pleading that dispensers having 4-year diploma certificates should be permitted to run their lawful clinics. The petitioner body has impleaded health DG, health secretary, PMDA, PMA and the Punjab government.