LARKANA, June 29: District naib nazim and administrative officer of district council has filed a petition in the circuit bench of Sindh High Court in Larkana against district nazim, district coordination officer, director general of Provincial Local Government Commission and some district officers.

They requested the court to direct the district nazim to act according to rules and regulations and stop interfering in the affairs of the establishment and secretariat of district naib nazim and release the salaries of 10 employees he had ordered to be withheld.

They requested the court to restrain them from overstepping their powers and ask them to do what they were legally bound to do.

The petitioners, Munwar Ali Abro (district naib nazim) and Sikandar Kalhoro (administrative officer of district council) said in their petition that the district nazim issued transfer orders of 13 employees of the district naib nazim’s secretariat in contravention of article 9(2) of the Civil Servants Rules 2004.

Of the 13, three had left the secretariat after they were stopped from drawing their salaries for three months.