JPMC, BMSI put on notice for alleged tampering with entrance test results

The Sindh High Court (SHC) has issued notices to officials of the Jinnah Postgraduate Medical Centre, the Basic Medical Sciences Institute and others on a petition against alleged manipulation of entrance test results of MPhil in clinical pathology.

Petitioner Miralam submitted in the petition that he had appeared in the entrance test for admission to MPhil in clinical pathology at the BMSI and secured 50 percent marks along with another candidate, Dr Marvi Umair, who also secured equal marks in the test.

He alleged that BMSI officials manipulated the test result by removing his name from the list of successful candidates and declared only Dr Marvi Omair as successful candidate against the vacant seats.

Petitioner counsel Shakeel Ahmed submitted that the respondent also conducted a second entrance test to fill up vacant seats and three more candidates, namely Dr Azad Khan, Dr Sunil Kumar and Dr Mohammad Tariq, were declared successful candidates besides Dr Marvi Umair as candidate of the previous induction.

He submitted that the name of petitioner was not mentioned in the test results despite he had also secured 50 percent marks in the entrance test of clinical pathology.

The court was requested to declare the entrance test result illegal and direct the BMSI to give admission to the petitioner in the MPhil programme on the basis of entrance test results held on July 20.

After preliminary hearing of the petition, the court issued notices to the executive director of the JPMC, the coordinator of the BMSI and others and called their comments on December 20.

Gutka ban 

The Sindh High Court (SHC) on Tuesday issued notices to respondents in a petition seeking implementation of the ban on Gutka preparation and its sale in the province, agencies add.

A division bench, headed by Justice Munib Akhtar, heard the petition seeking compliance of the ban regarding preparation of Gutka and its sale across the province.

A petitioner told the court that the provincial government had banned Gutka in the province but the Gutka mafia under the patronage of police was preparing and selling it.

He further informed the court that the Gutka caused cancer and it was injurious to health. The court issued notices to the respondents.

Gujjar Nullah houses

The Sindh High Court SHC restrained the Karachi Metropolitan Corporation (KMC) from demolishing the buildings constructed legally along the embankments of the Gujjar Nullah.

The SHC bench, headed by Justice Nadeem Akhtar, passed this order while hearing the petitions filed by several residents against the civic authorities for their intent to demolish their legally constructed houses.

The court also clarified that its order shall not be applied to protect the lands of such persons who had built encroachments on the land of the nullah or had raised construction without any valid allotment registered lease and site plan.

The anti-encroachment drive initiated by the civic authorities against the encroachers shall not be affected, delayed or stopped, the court’s order read.

While disposing of the pleas, the bench directed the petitioners to approach the tribunal established under Section 12 of the Sindh Public Property Removal of Encroachment Act 2010 before December 17.

The court ruled that no coercive action shall be taken against the petitioners in respect of their properties which were in accordance with their allotment registered lease and site plan till Feb 28 or final outcome of the proceedings on the property dispute.

Earlier, the petitioners had alleged that the civic authorities were demolishing their houses constructed legally under the garb of illegal encroachments. They added that the land on which their houses were built had been leased out to them by the authorities concerned.