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HYDERABAD, March 11: Four students on Monday filed separate contempt of court applications in the Sindh High Court, Hyderabad circuit bench, against the chairman and inspector of colleges of the Board of Intermediate and Secondary Education (BISE) for not issuing them eligibility card thus preventing them from appearing in the examination.
The applicants, who belonged to other provinces, said that the officials of the BISE were committing contempt of court as there were clear orders of a division bench of the court that when the students fulfilled the legal formalities they should be issued the eligibility cards.
Through Advocate Jawed Bukhari, Ms Nazneea Jabeen, Tehzeeb Hussain, S. Imam Hussain, and Ms Baskia Begum had filed a constitutional petition, praying before the court to direct the respondents to issue them eligibility cards to appear in the examination.
The applicants said that they had fulfilled the requirements, therefore they were entitled to the eligibility cards.
The respondents had told the court that they had some technical objections concerning their domicile and non-availability of proper transfer documents from Gilgit to Hyderabad.
On the last date of hearing, the Additional Attorney General, Sindh, Masood A. Noorani, suggested that an order may be passed by the court to the effect that the eligibility cards should be issued forthwith so that the candidates/petitioners may be in a position to appear in the examinations. He, however, said that it would be subject to fulfilment of the legal requirements within a month of passing of the order.
The bench had ordered that in case the documents were provided then permission should not be withheld.
In their separate contempt of court applications, the students said that their petition was disposed of with the above-mentioned observation and they had complied with the requirements put forward by the respondents.
PETITIONER: Justice Mushir Alam of the Sindh High Court, Hyderabad circuit bench, on Monday directed a petitioner to file a direct complaint at the proper forum for registration of an FIR against three policemen.
A resident of Mirpurkhas, Khadim Hussain, had filed a constitutional petition before the court seeking registration of the FIR against SHO Ghulam Mohammad, M. Ibrahim Shahani, and ASI Rasool Bux Lashari of the Kot police station.
The petitioner told the court that on Feb 12 the respondent SHO and ASI along with policemen raided the Autaq of the petitioner and inquired about a suspect.
The petitioner said that he told the police that he did not know about the suspect on hearing which the policemen became annoyed. He said that he was taken to the police station and was detained in a lock-up.
The petitioner said that he was released after two days. He alleged that the police had taken Rs5,000 from him.
WORKSHOP: The Bureau of Curriculum and Extension Wing, Sindh, is conducting a week-long workshop in the Government Elementary College (for men), Hyderabad, with a view to improving the standard of primary and middle education, reports our Bureau. The workshop which began today will conclude on March 14.
