ISLAMABAD: Supreme Court put a question mark above the
government’s recruitment policy on Wednesday, wondering whether it can dole out
jobs by generating vacancies just on political grounds, though such individuals
remained unemployed for above a period after their termination.
“The actual question for determination before the court is: can
such assistance be granted by parliament through an act by discerning against
others who are already working on a steady post,” Justice Umar Ata Bandial observed
Justice Bandial was caption a five-judge Supreme Court bench
which appropriated up a set of requests seeking review of the Court’s Aug 17 judgment
that had reduced almost 17,000 government employees jobless.
Courtroom No 1, detained with a number of review requests
mostly submitted by the central government, was crammed with sacked employees
while a large number of employees waited outside the Supreme Court edifices on Constitution Avenue.
On the eve of his departure, Justice Mushir Alam had, on Aug
17, professed as “illegal and unconstitutional” a PPP-era law called the Discharged
Employees (Reinstatement) Order Act 2010 (SERA) under which a number of people
were working or promoted.
The Supreme Court suspended further records to Monday (Dec
6) and oblique that a short order could come next week after a day-to-day
hearing.
The court overlooked a request by senior counsel Raza
Rabbani that till the deduction of the case, the court order that the workers
in question were permitted to medical facilities because fairly a number of
them were on dialysis or sorrow from other illnesses.
Justice Bandial emphasized that conscription without
following a due process was a violation of Articles 4, 8, 9 and 25 of the
Constitution.
