August 19, 2008	Tuesday	Sha’aban 16, 1429

RAWALPINDI, Aug 18: The Lahore High Court (LHC) Rawalpindi bench here on Monday directed the Punjab government to submit its para-wise comments in reply to identical petitions filed by some 30 prosecutors sacked by the provincial government on July 25.

Justice Syed Sajjad Hussain Shah asked Assistant Advocate General (AAG) Chaudhry Hasaan to submit the reply after the government lawyer said he could not get comments from the provincial government in response to the petitions filed by 30 deputy and assistant public prosecutors of Rawalpindi, Attock, Chakwal and Jhelum. The court adjourned the hearing sine die.

The petitioners’ lawyer, Sardar Abdul Razzak, said the court suspended the July 25 orders of the government on July 31 and directed the respondents to file comments but they had failed to reply to the court.

The petitioners, while making the Punjab government respondent through secretary Law and Justice Department, secretary Punjab Prosecution Department and District Public Prosecutors, had maintained that they were inducted in Public Prosecution Department in 2007 under the Punjab Criminal Prosecution Service Act 2006.