Employee moves PHC against Afghan Commissionerate

PESHAWAR: An employee of the Afghan Commissionerate on Monday moved the Peshawar High Court (PHC) against his eviction from an official residence. Syed Shahid Ali Shah, a senior clerk in the Afghan Commissionerate, filed a writ petition through his lawyer Muhammad Ijaz Sabi against the expulsion from an official residence, which he termed forced and illegal. Commissioner Afghan Refugees, Additional Commissioner Coordination, State Officer, security in-charge and the police constable were made parties in the case. The petitioner stated that he was appointed in 2011 at the Commissionerate and later he was allotted five marlas house in Afghan Commissionerate Housing Colony, Hayatabad through lawful way. After allotment of the house, he stated that he shifted his family from Bannu to the official residence in Peshawar. He claimed in the petition that he and his family was out of the house and in their absence, a police constable Roohul Amin broke open a lock of his house and occupied it forcibly with the connivance of the high-ups of the Commissionerate. He said that his house articles and luggage were then shifted to the Commissionerate. The petition said the police constable had violated sanctity of house and illegally occupied the house.