LHC hears petition seeking to stop ‘pre-poll rigging’

Author: Mustansar Abbas

LAHORE: Lahore High Court (LHC) has on Monday stopped the appointment on 52 seats in Punjab Education Foundation (PEF) on contract, reported Daily Times.

Hearing a petition filed by Chaudhry Shoaib Saleem Advocate, Justice Farrukh Irfan Khan ordered Punjab Chief Secretary and PEF chairman to submit their response by February 14. He warned Punjab government of consequences if it fails to comply with the orders.

According to details, the petitioner had challenged appointments of 126 District Monitoring and Evaluation Assistants as PEF had made those appointments in violation of the 2004 Recruitment Policy. He maintained that despite the case being sub judice, PEF had advertised 52 more vacancies.

He added that the appointments of the abovementioned assistants were illegal and alleged the government if making these appointments to rig the elections. “PEF had also appointed ex-servicemen as monitoring officers in violation of the advertisement and not even a single civilian graduate had been appointed”, he said.

Shoaib Advocate stated that PEF had given undue priority to the ex-servicemen despite that the recruitment policy already provided them extra 5 marks. He alleged that the government had awarded the jobs to the ex-servicemen against heavy bribes and demanded that all the 126 appointments be declared void, halting the process of 52 further appointments.

Share
Leave a Comment

Recent Posts

  • Pakistan

Punjab starts implementing plan to combat smog

The Punjab government has initiated implementation of a comprehensive strategy to combat environmental pollution and…

2 hours ago
  • Pakistan

Apni Chhat, Apna Ghar: CM Maryam approves 3-marla plot scheme

Punjab Chief Minister Punjab Maryam Nawaz Sharif has approved a scheme to provide three-marla plots…

2 hours ago
  • Pakistan

Seven outlaws arrested, weapons recovered

The Islamabad Capital Territory (ICT) Police on Saturday apprehended seven criminals involved in various illegal…

2 hours ago
  • Pakistan

DC inaugurates 7th agricultural population census

Deputy Commissioner Larkana Dr. Sharjeel Noor Channa has inaugurated the 7th Agricultural Population Census. The…

2 hours ago
  • Pakistan

PTI arming ‘youth force activists and Afghan nationals,’ says Azma

Punjab's Information Minister Azma Bokhari has accused the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) of arming activists and…

2 hours ago
  • Pakistan

Danyal says PTI’s political decline exposed before people

Parliamentary Secretary for Information and Broadcasting, Barrister Daniyal Chaudhry, blasted PTI's political decline, saying Bushra…

2 hours ago