KARACHI: The Sindh High Court on Friday restrained the chairman of the Board of Intermediate Education Karachi from transferring the controller of examinations outside the city without seeking permission of the court.

A two-judge bench of the SHC headed by Justice Munib Akhtar also put the provincial law officer, the chief secretary, the secretary to the chief minister on education boards & universities and the BIEK chairman on notice with the direction to file their comments by Oct 13.

The petitioner, Muhammad Imran Chishti, challenged his transfer to the Mirpurkhas Board of Intermediate Education.

The petitioner contended that he had joined the Mirpurkhas Board of Intermediate Education in 2005 and in July 2007 he was transferred and posted as the BIEK deputy secretary on deputation for three years following proper legal procedure.

He claimed that later the BIEK notified his absorption as deputy secretary in the BPS-18 in November 2007 and in the same year he was promoted to the BPS-19 and subsequently notified as the controller of examinations on May 19, 2011.

The petitioner argued that Akhtar Ghouri, who was holding the post of the secretary to the chief minister, was appointed chairman of the BIEK on June 20 and alleged that Mr Ghouri directed his subordinates to make illegal changes to mark sheets of students.

However, he contended, that upon refusing to obey such illegal orders the chairman levelled allegations against him.

He alleged that the chairman in order to hide his corruption and illegalities got him transferred from Karachi to his parent department in Mirpurkhas with the connivance of the the CM’s secretary on education boards and universities, which he argued may be initiated under the garb of the Supreme Court’s judgement against deputations.

However, the petitioner maintained that the apex court’s judgement did not affect his service since he was not a civil servant.

Preventive detention

The Pakistan Rangers informed on Friday two antiterrorism courts about 90-day preventive detention of three suspects for questioning.

The paramilitary soldiers along with their law officers produced Moeez Saleem, Noman Arif and Kamal, said to be political workers, before the judges of the ATC-I & II and submitted that they were picked up in Gulshan-i-Maymar, Azizabad and Vehari, respectively.

They contended that the suspects were placed under three-month preventive under Section 11-EEEE of the Anti-Terrorism Act, 1997 for inquiry since there were credible information about their involvement in targeted killings, extortion and other offences punishable under the ATA.

Their production along with relevant documents was made for the information and record of the courts, they added.

Published in Dawn, October 10th, 2015

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