KARACHI, Nov 30: The Sindh High Court has held that candidates appearing in various government service examinations should be treated to be domiciled in the province where they are born and brought up, and not on the basis of their father’s domicile.

The order was passed by a division bench, comprising Justice Zahid Kurban Alavi and Justice Mujeebullah Siddiqi, in a constitutional petition of Shazia Murad and others.

The petitioners had appeared in the CSS examination and were urging that they should be treated as domiciled in Sindh as they had been born and brought up in this province, and not Punjab.

The counsel for the petitioners, Khalid Jawaid Khan, also pointed out that similar matters had been decided by this court as well as the Balochistan High Court, and the matter had gone to the Supreme Court where interim relief had been granted in civil appeal Nos 1279 and 762 of 1999. In both matters the candidates were to be treated as those from the place where they were born.