KARACHI: SHC issues notice to secretary, BIE chief: Non-issuance of admit cards
By Our Reporter
KARACHI, May 22: The Sindh High Court on Wednesday put the secretary of education and the chairman of the Board of Intermediate Education, Karachi, on notice for not issuing admit cards to 11 intermediate students.
The bench, comprising Chief Justice of the Sindh High Court, Justice Saiyed Saeed Ashhad and Justice Ghulam Rabbani, also issued notices to the AG Sindh and the Principal of Government Boys Higher Secondary School, Korangi, for May 28.
The petitioners claimed they were not issued admit cards despite the fact that they completed the required formalities. They prayed for allowing them to appear in the examination. (The examinations are already in progress from May 3).
The petitioners are Azeem Ahmed, Abdul Azeem, Farrukh Khalil, Mohammed Umair, Mohammad Azeem, Mohammad Yasir, Mohammed Nadeem Umair, Zohaib Ahmed Khan, Adeel Ahmed, Mohammad Shehzad and other students of first and second year in science and engineering group.
Counsel for the petitioners submitted that they were deprived of necessary documents needed in examination. It was contended by him that when the petitioners contacted the concerned authority in the board, they were informed that their forms were not submitted by the institution.
At least 40 students of Class XI (Science) at a higher secondary school were deprived of their chance to appear in the annual examination this year owing to the apathy of the officials.
Sources in the Board of Intermediate Education, Karachi, said some 60 students, enrolled in the science and humanities classes at Govt Boys Higher Secondary School No-2, K-Area, Korangi, had to suffer enormously as the principal of the school failed to act on time.
It was learnt that students in question whose enrolment formalities were completed with the intermediate board had to bear the brunt of faults and dishonesty observed on the part of some lower staff at the school. The staff, despite having collected the required examination fees and forms from the students, did not forward their case to the higher authorities for onward dispatch to the education board.
Sources said students were kept in the dark for long about the fact that their forms were not sent to the board, and, as such there was all the likelihood that they would have to suffer for one whole academic year for no fault of theirs’.
The higher school authorities, students and other concerned had approached different authorities and finally the controlling authority of the board issued directives to the board to issue admit cards to the affected students, but by that time the damage was done and the board had informed the school that since the science group examinations had commenced, it would not be in the fitness of things to allow the students of science group to take up their examinations.
However, after much hue and cry, the BIE, lately, came up with the notion that the students of science group whose forms for part-I examinations were not submitted to the board within the stipulated period, would be allowed to take the part-I papers next year, along with the part-II papers.
Students were not happy with the decision and had urged the authorities concerned to hold special examinations as they were not at fault.
In the case of humanities group students, it was decided that since their examinations were to commence in June and the special date for submission of examinations forms by humanities students were open, their forms would be accepted with a fine of Rs 1,000.
A senior official of the board dispelled the impression that students or principal had reported to the board about the casualty well in time and the board had got enough time to address the grievances and act accordingly.
The students had demanded of the Sindh education department to initiate an inquiry into the alleged immorality at their seat of learning.
Alliance Motors: The acquittal application of the two of the four under-custody directors of the Alliance Motors (Pvt) Limited would come up in the Sindh High Court on Thursday.
On the previous hearing the four directors, Mohammed Tayyab, Mohammad Ibrahim, Pir Asghar Ali and Pir Hamid Ali were produced before Justice Mohammad Afzal Soomro by the jail authorities.
Advocate Imran Ahmed for accused Pir Asghar Ali and Pir Hamid Ali Qureshi had filed application for acquittal on the ground that no case was made out and they were in illegal custody.
Ainuddin Khan, counsel for the State Bank of Pakistan, vehemently opposed and stated that their was sufficient material available to connect the accused for commission of the offence, as such charge is to be framed against them.
Four directors of the company were accused of doing illegal banking business with over rupees five billion collected from the general public.
It was argued by the counsel for the SBP that as directors of the Alliance Motors, Pir Asghar Ali Qureshi, Hamid Ali Qureshi, Mohammad Ibrahim and Mohammad Yunus, had collected money from the public offering them higher rate of profit.
