KARACHI: SHC disposes of medical students’ application
By Our Staff Reporter
KARACHI, March 4: The Sindh High Court disposed of on Tuesday as withdrawn an application moved by students of Sindh Medical College whose admissions the college has cancelled for permission to appear in the fourth-year MBBS examination.
As the case was called for hearing, the petitioners’ counsel, Raja Qureshi, stood up to inform the bench seized of it that the application had become infructuous as the examination had already concluded. The bench, which had issued urgent notices to the respondents and also advanced the date of hearing of the main petitions on Monday, disposed of the application accordingly. The petitions would now be heard on March 6 as scheduled.
According to Additional Advocate-General Abbas Ali, who appeared on Tuesday in response to the notice, no letter had been addressed by the SMC authorities to Advocate-General Anwar Mansoor Khan saying that the college staff involved in fraudulent admissions had been identified and suspended. The applicants had pressed the alleged communication as “a new development” warranting a fresh plea for an interim order and urgent hearing of their petitions.
Two more students whose admissions the college has cancelled sought to be impleaded in the proceedings. The bench, which consisted of Justice S. Ahmed Sarwana and Justice M. Mujibullah Siddiqui, asked them to move a separate petition or petitions, that would also be heard on Thursday.
petition rejected: A division bench of the Sindh High Court dismissed on Tuesday a writ petition moved by law students for a direction to the University of Karachi and the law colleges affiliated to it to conduct LLB supplementary examination.
The petitioners stated that supplementary examination was regularly held to enable the students failing the annual examination to continue their education and seek admission to the third year for their law degree.
Contesting the petition, the university submitted that it had announced before the last supplementary examination that no mid-term examination would be held after it. Supplementary examinations were being phased out as a matter of policy to streamline the professional education system. Candidates sought admission to higher classes without passing their preliminary examinations. This led to overlapping and wastage of time as the universities were busy all the time making arrangements for examinations.
Justice Mohammed Roshan Essani and Justice Anwar Zaheer Jamali, who constituted the bench, dismissed the petition after hearing the two sides. They observed that LLB was a professional degree and students were expected to pursue their studies more diligently so as to practise the profession of law successfully.
NOTICE: The High Court issued notices to the Nazims and a councillor of Keamari town and a union council on a writ petition alleging demolition of a boundary wall raised by an owner on his plot for his failure to pay them Rs500,000.
The petitioner, Zahid Awan, submitted, through Advocate Zia Awan, that the Keamari Town and union council Nazims and the councillor not only demolished the wall he built to demarcate and protect a 20-acre plot he bought in Hawkesbay Road, but also threw out him and the watchmen he employed of his property at gunpoint. When he went to the police, the SHO declined to register a first information report.
A division bench, comprising Justice Mohammed Roshan Essani and Justice Anwar Zaheer Jamali, directed that notices be issued to the three main respondents and the police officials concerned.
BAIL GRANTED: The Sindh High Court remanded a banking case to the trial court for a fresh hearing and allowed the appellant/convict bail in the sum of Rs50,000 on deposit of security equalling the amount he allegedly owed the Agricultural Development Bank of Pakistan.
The convict/appellant, Ishratullah, submitted in his appeal that he had sent two cheques to the ADBP for a total amount of Rs600,000 outstanding against him, but they were lost in transit. He informed the special court for banking offences of the abortive repayment and undertook to deposit the amount afresh. The court, however, convicted him and sentenced him to one year’s imprisonment with fine.
A division bench, consisting of Justice Shabbir Ahmed and Justice Azizullah M. Memon, asked him to deposit Rs600,000 with the court Nazir as security for repayment and allowed him bail.
