The Supreme Court has adjourned the hearing for three weeks in contempt of court case against Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif for non-implementation of court orders regarding promotions of the bureaucrats.
A three-judge bench of the apex court headed by Chief Justice Nasirul Mulk heard the case of not giving promotions to Ghulam Aleem Mehmood, Dr Abdul Hameed Qureshi and Akbar Hayat Gandapura.
All the applicants appeared before the court and said the court had ordered to give them promotions back in 1998 but it was not implemented.
On contempt petition, then chief justice of the apex court Justice Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhary had constituted a three-member committee which declared give officers including than Establishment Division Joint Secretary Nargis Sethi responsible for non-implementation of the court orders.
According to the applicants, the court had ordered to review the promotions of the applicants but they didn’t get their right despite passing of seven years. Another contempt of court petition has been filed in the apex court, making prime minister as party in the case as promotions are being done on his orders.
