LAHORE: Promotions to the post of additional registrar(s) in the Lahore High Court establishment have been challenged through a writ petition for being in violation of the rules.

Assistant Registrar Muhammad Akmal Khan questions the promotions in the petition saying the rules of the post of the additional registrar does not exist under the rules of the high court.

The petitioner states the LHC employees have been awarding promotions as additional registrars completely ruining the provisions of the establishment rules. He pleads that the chief justice and the administration committee of the high court have no power to stop regular promotions of the employees at the cost of time scale promotions/upgradation.

He asks the court that the authorities concerned be directed to frame rules required for the promotion of employees to the post of additional registrar and the departmental promotion committee should be restrained from making recommendations of two deputy registrars namely Imran Safdar and Ali Zaman as additional registrars.

The petitioner also urges the court to order recovery of all perks and privileges enjoyed by all those officers who have been posted as additional registrar in the past. He pleads that the matter be brought to the notice of the chief justice immediately to stop further illegal promotions in the LHC establishment.

Published in Dawn, May 5th, 2019