HYDERABAD: Election of commission chairman questioned
By Our Correspondent
HYDERABAD, March 9: The Sindh High Court, Hyderabad circuit bench, on Tuesday issued notices to the chairman of District Public Safety Commission and the Sindh additional advocate-general
, challenging the election of a district council member as DPSC chairman.
MPA Farheen Mughal had filed a petition against the home department, district council convener and DPSC chairman Khalil Memon in which she said she was an elected member of the DPSC and on being elected MPA, she resigned from the district council.
She said the convener misinterpreted her resignation and elected district council member Mr Memon DPSC chairman which was null and void on the ground that she was still member of the commission and also because Mr Memon was elected on a seat reserved for women.
She maintained that the mandatory provision of the election procedure, according to which the selection board chairperson has to elicit the DPSC elections, had been violated in the present case.
The MPA prayed the court to declare her member of the DPSC and, therefore, entitled to perform her duties and to declare the election of Mr Memon illegal and also to restrain him from interfering in her duties as member of the commission.
