KARACHI, June 26: The High Court of Sindh on Tuesday issued a notice to the Karachi Electric Supply Corporation (KESC) and others for July 9 on a petition seeking directives to end the alleged unannounced intermittent power load-shedding by the KESC.
The division bench comprising Justice Muhammad Ather Saeed and Justice Qaiser Iqbal was hearing a petition filed by Qadir Khan Mandokhel.
The petitioner submitted that despite repeated assurances that load-shedding would be done for a limited period and on scheduled timings, the respondents were continuing un-scheduled load-shedding for long durations, or every six hours in a day and night.
The petitioner also prayed to the court to order that all hospitals be exempted from power breakdown by KESC.
PRE-ARREST BAIL: A division bench of the SHC comprising Justice Muhammad Ather Saeed and Justice Qaiser Iqbal on Tuesday granted pre-arrest bail to an accused facing charges in an inquiry initiated by the NAB.
Granting pre-arrest bail to the applicant/accused on furnishing a surety of Rs0.5 million, the bench adjourned the matter for July 18.
The applicant, Mohammad Siddique Zaur, submitted that he was posted in 1997 as Mukhtiarkar of Mirpur Sakro, Thatta, and during the same period Abdul Rauf Shaikh was posted as Tapedar.—APP
