HYDERABAD, Dec 5: The Sindh High Court, Hyderabad circuit bench, here on Monday issued notices to secretary education and literacy department, EDO and education officials from the Mirpurkhas district to appear before the court on December 15 on a constitutional petition filed by three high school teachers (HST).

The teachers had prayed before the court to direct the education officials to comply with directives of the Sindh chief minister regarding their reinstatement.

The petitioners, Ms Nosheen Akram, Ms Zarina and Nadeem Akram said that they had been appointed as teachers in 1998.

They said their jobs were terminated by the Sindh government in the same year without assigning any reason.

It was to victimize them on political grounds, as the government changed and the new government took over, they alleged.

Advocate Salahuddin Panwhar on behalf of the petitioners said the Sindh government, while taking up the matter of the teachers, reinstated 876 of them belonging to Mirpurkhas, Hyderabad, Sanghar and Nawabshah.

He said the education EDO was directed to comply with the order after completing all required formalities.

The education EDO, while acting on the order, authorized the education district officer to reinstate the teachers and other officials appointed in 1998.

The district officer issued a common order to reinstate 44 male and 21 female teachers appointed on various posts.

The EDO constituted a committee to reinstate the teachers belonging to the Mirpurkhas district.

The petitioners appeared before the committee and produced their original documents. But they were discriminated by the EDO as he chose the teachers of his choice.

The petitioners said that the teachers belonging to the Tharparkar district had been reinstated as it was the home district of the Sindh chief minister.

They said that the respondents kept them in darkness about their reinstatement despite their repeated approach.

They said that their case was similar to those who had been reinstated.

The petitioners prayed before the court to reinstate them in the services according to the direction of the chief minister.

SHC: A division bench of the Sindh High Court, Hyderabad circuit, on Monday issued notices to former Kotri taluka nazim, Kotri taluka municipal officer, Kotri taluka municipal administration chief officer, Phulelli executive engineer, additional advocate general and a landowner, Shafi Mohammad Shoro, on a constitutional petition, challenging diversion of sewerage water into residential areas by the landowner in collusion with the government officials.

Muqeem Memon filed the petition through Mansoorul Haq Ansari.