A contempt petition was filed in the Lahore High Court Saturday against Punjab Education Foundation Chairman Qamar-ul-Islam Raja for flouting the court’s order vis-a-vis restraining him from participating in PEF Board of Directors meeting.
The petition was filed by petitioner counsel Ch Shoaib Saleem. The petitioner pleaded in the contempt petition that PEF Chairman Qamar-ul-Islam Raja was restrained besides two others – MNA Saira Afzal Tarar and MNA Rana Muhammad Afzal – by Justice Syed Mansoor Ali Shah on March 27, 2015, not to participate in the PEF’s Board of Directors meeting.
The court had observed in its order that prima-facie the contemnor did not qualify to be from private sector as envisaged under section 5(2) of the Punjab Education Foundation Act 2004 and he was restrained to participate in any BoD meeting of the Foundation.
But the contemnor, Qamar-ul-Islam Raja, not only headed the 18th BoD meeting of the PEF but also came up with major changes in all the rules and regulation and increased 45 percent salaries of all the employees of the Foundation, the petitioner added.
Besides that, the counsel added the contemnor also changed the basic criterion of minimum qualification and experience against all the top posts in the Foundation and flouted the court’s order.
The petitioner pleaded the court to punish the contemnor for deliberately and intentionally violating the court’s order and also sought cancellation of minutes of meeting conducted under the chair of the contemnor.
