The Supreme Court is likely to indict Sindh Police chief Ghulam Haider Jamali on Tuesday (February 2) for retention and absorption of an officer on deputation into the provincial Anti-Corruption Establishment in violation of the court’s earlier order.
The IGP had been accused of reinstating the officer within a fortnight of receiving his application.
A three-judge bench, headed by Justice Amir Hani Muslim, and comprising Justice Umar Ata Bandial and Justice Khilji Arif Hussain would hear the contempt case.
It may be mentioned that Saifullah Phulpotu was inducted into Sindh Police in 1995 as assistant sub-inspector and promoted as inspector in grade 16 in 2002.
He then joined the ACE on deputation despite in violation of the required criteria. He was later obsorbed in the department and got two promotions in a year, first in Grade 17 and then Grade 18 as deputy director.
The IGP and Phulpotu were issued contempt notices for not following the court’s verdict in which it had ordered the Sindh bureaucracy to return all officers inducted and obsorbed in other government departments to their parent departments.
During the last hearing on January 13, the apex court observed that the act of regularising the services of an officer, who was suspended twice, terminated once, faced disciplinary action four times and got two promotions in a year in the ACE where he had come on deputation from the Police Department, was against the law.
The court ordered IGP Jamali and Saifullah Phulpotu on last hearing to ensure their presence on Feb 2 so that they might be formally charged for committing contempt of court.
Additional Advocate General of Sindh Sarwar Khan was appointed prosecutor by the court to prosecute the IGP and the officer under contempt charges.
