Sindh chief secretary, the KWSB, the KE and others as respondents, the petitioner requested the court to take judicial notice and pass appropriate orders against them for their gross negligence and irresponsibility that caused the deaths.
He also requested the court to direct the privatisation commission chairman to produce the agreement pertaining to the privatisation of the city’s power utility along with the details of shareholders of the K-Electric so that if any illegality and irregularity was found the pact could be cancelled.
An SHC division bench headed by Justice Aqeel Ahmed Abbasi after the preliminary hearing of the petition issued notices to federal and provincial law officers, the KWSB, KE and others, seeking their comments.
The court also directed the petitioner to submit documents that proved that the federal and provincial governments had displayed negligence in addressing the problem.
NAB told to file comments
The high court told the National Accountability Bureau to file comments on a petition filed by the minority affairs secretary in an illegal appointment case.
Badar Jamil Mandhro, the minority affairs secretary, filed a petition against a NAB inquiry into the illegal appointment of 26 officers in his department.
The NAB counsel sought time to file comments as the investigation was still pending and he wanted to produce the material collected by investigation officer. An SHC division bench headed by Justice Mohammad Ali Mazhar granted time and adjourned the matter till July 7.
The same bench also directed NAB to file comments on petitions filed by the chairman of the chief minister’s inquiry and inspection team and a former chief secretary in an illegal land allotment case.
The petitioner, Abdus Subhan, submitted that he was a grade 21 officer and presently working as the chairman of the chief minister’s inquiry and inspection team.
He added that NAB officials were harassing him in a case of a land in Jamshoro allotted when he was a member of the land utilisation department.
Former chief secretary Ghulam Ali Shah Pasha also sought injunction in the same reference. Subhan’s counsel submitted that the petition should be converted into a pre-arrest bail application. The investigation officer of the case submitted that the petitioner would not be arrested till the next date of hearing but he should be directed to cooperate in the investigation.