The Supreme Court on Monday directed the Sindh government to make rules and regulations with regard to the appointments of police personnel under the martyrs’ quota.
Hearing an application of Mohammad Ali Kamal against his demotion in the police department, a two member bench of the SC, headed by Justice Gulzar Ahmed, inquired the advocate general Sindh as why the rules and regulations for the appointments of police personnel under the martyrs’ quota had not been framed.
The applicant submitted that he was appointed as a DSP under the martyrs’ quota after the martyrdom of his father Kamal Hussain in a bomb blast in March 2013. He submitted that he was later demoted by the authorities which justified their decision citing the SC judgment in an out-of-turn promotions case.
The apex court observed that the appointments of police personnel without the rules and regulations was itself the murder of merit as every person could be appointed in the police department at the discretion of the government. The SC directed the Sindh government to make rules and regulations with regard to the appointments of police personnel under the martyrs’ quota. The court also directed the petitioner to approach an appropriate forum to redress his grievance.
FBR plea
The SC also directed a counsel for the Federal Bureau of Revenue (FBR) to come prepared to argue on the bureau’s appeal against an order of a federal service tribunal which reinstated a customs officer.
The FBR had appealed against the reinstatement of appraiser collector Javed Raza Naqvi alleging that he was removed from service for his involvement in the imports of 196 luxury vehicles under an amnesty scheme. The court inquired the FBR’s counsel as whether any disciplinary action had been initiated against any superior officials in this regard as luxury vehicles could not be imported without their connivance. The court directed the counsel to come prepared and adjourned the hearing.