PESHAWAR, Oct 11: The Peshawar High Court on Thursday summoned a superintendent of the Khyber Medical College in a writ petition, which alleged that the college administration had resorted to favouritism in student affairs.

A two-member bench, comprising Justice Talat Qayyum Qureshi and Justice Qaim Jan Khan, took exception to the alleged filing of an objectionable affidavit by superintendent Shamshad Khan and ordered him to appear along with relevant record on Oct 18 before the court.

Ahmad Zaib, a student, had filed a petition, requesting the high court to order the college’s administration to allow him to move from the Gomal Medical College to the Khyber Medical College on compassionate grounds.

The high court accepted the petition and ordered the college to allow the student to migrate. However, the administration challenged the decision in the Supreme Court which sent the case back to the high court for re-hearing.

Syed Attique Shah, appearing on behalf of the petitioner, contended that the superintendent had filed an objectionable affidavit on behalf of the principal, claiming that there was no seat available for the petitioner.

He stated that seven students had migrated to the institution from the Gomal Medical College in Dera Ismail Khan and the Ayub Medical College in Abbottabad.

The petitioner alleged that the younger brother of the-then provincial health minister, Enayatullah Khan, and MPA Nasreen Khattak, had migrated to the KMC without assigning any reason, adding that the superintendent had mis-stated facts before the high court.

The court inquired from senior lawyers, including Sattar Khan, whether any action could be taken against the superintendent. They said he could be punished under sections 406 (criminal breach of trust) and 467 (forging a document) of the Pakistan Penal Code.

The bench observed that it had ordered the student’s migration in June 2007 but the administration migrated other students but not the petitioner.

The petitioner added that while he was not allowed to migrate in the first year, the administration had allowed another first-year student to migrate.