Another division bench of the court was informed on Monday that the appointment orders of 81 physically challenged petitioners would be delivered to them before Oct 22.

KARACHI: The Sindh High Court on Monday issued notices to respondents in a petition against an inordinate delay in surgeries at the orthopaedic department of the Jinnah Postgraduate Medical Centre (JPMC).

The petitioner submitted that he met with a road accident and got his leg fractured and the orthopaedic department of the JPMC asked him to come for surgery after one year.

A two-judge bench headed by Justice Mohammad Ali Mazhar issued notices to the respondents and also directed the additional advocate general to call a senior official from the orthopaedic department on the next date of hearing.

The additional secretary of services, general administration and coordination (SGA&C) department, Umar Farooq, and Additional Advocate General Hakim Shaikh further assured the two-judge bench headed by Justice Nadeem Akhtar that the pending cases of 49 other petitioners regarding appointment would also be finalised before the next hearing.

When a petition seeking implementation of government job quota for physically challenged persons came up for hearing, the additional secretary through a compliance report informed the bench that out of 195 petitioners, 81 had been recommended for appointment, whereas 81 not recommended and the cases of remaining 63 were still pending.

The lawyers for petitioners, Nadeem Shaikh, Shoao-un-Nabi and others stated that the appointment orders had not been received by the 81 petitioners.

The additional secretary and the AAG undertook that the appointment orders would either be delivered to them before next date of hearing or would be produced before the bench on the next hearing.

Published in Dawn, September 29th, 2020