The Sindh High Court, while hearing on Tuesday a petition filed by the director general of public relations Fazul Shah against his transfer from the Information Department to Services and General Administration, adjourned proceedings until February 15.
At the last hearing on December 19, the court’s divisional bench headed by the Justice Maqbool Baqar had suspended the transfer order and ordered the provincial government to file a written statement on the matter.
On Tuesday, the government’s law officer submitted the written statement, according to which Fazul Shah, an officer of the Sindh government of grade 19, was actually working as the executive district officer of the Mithi district. He was transferred and posted as director general of public relations on July 2011.
The post is that of grade-20 and the Sindh government has a right to transfer employees and officers to any other post in any department and hence the court should dismiss the petition.
It was also mentioned in the statement that the previous job history of Shah reveals that he was also the employee of the defunct Sindh Arid Zone Development Authority and he was posted there as its director. He remained under suspension and after completion of inquiry, the first the major penalty of compulsory retirement was imposed upon him. After recovering the losses, his rank of grade-19 was also reduced to grade-18 and this decision of the Sindh government was later withdrawn on the orders of the Sindh Services Tribunal.
