KARACHI: The Karachi registry of the country’s top court has directed the Sindh chief secretary to submit a report on action taken against all police officials up to the rank of DIG who were awarded major or minor penalties during their departmental proceedings.
The order was issued on Wednesday by a three-member Supreme Court bench headed by Justice Mushir Alam after hearing the matter of police officers’ alleged involvement in criminal activities and those with patchy service records.
The court had earlier directed the CS and the Sindh Police chief to file a fresh report stating the nature of patchy records of police officers and personnel as well as the penalties imposed on them by the competent authority during their departmental proceedings.
The bench took exception to the provincial government’s failure to file a report on action taken against gazetted and high-ranking police officers with patchy service records. The SC observed that the government had not submitted a report mentioning the details of officers above grade-17, against whom proceedings were held after awarding them major or minor penalties by the competent authority.
Sindh Advocate General Zamir Ahmed Ghumro told the court that the CS was on leave due to some personal engagements, and sought more time to file the report, following which the bench directed Ghumro to submit the report by Friday.
The police scrutiny committee informed the SC that as many as 352 police officers and personnel had been recommended for punishment because of their patchy service records. Submitting the progress report to the court, the three-member body said service records of 109,320 police officers and personnel were received, of which records of 12,361 were scrutinised with the suspicion of being patchy.
The report said 352 officials were recommended for punishment for having patchy records, while 1,182 were cleared for punishment on the same grounds, adding that so far 1,534 were called in for personal hearing and their cases finalised.
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