Shahbaz Junior moves SC for award implementation

Shahbaz Junior, an Inspector in the Punjab police at the relevant time, failed to get any one-step promotion when others were awarded the due. The police department and the home department continued to deny him the promotion pleading that he has already been promoted out of the way to reach the present status of Inspector so his service cannot be put one step ahead. He moved the tribunal and the Lahore High Court to fight for his right inter alia contending that the prime minister order well spoke for promoting him as DSP from the position existed at the relevant time. At LHC his petition was disposed of in terms that the department should decide his case according to the law and he was again not considered for promotion. Against it he approached the Apex Court to claim his 14-year-old right.

The Apex Court Bench of Justice Muhammad Akhtar Shabbir and Justice Syed Sakhi Hussain Bukhari Wednesday took hearing of the petition argued for Shahbaz by Dr Abdul Basit.

The counsel highlighted background in which his client was kept away from the award as well as the legal ground supporting him the award. Dr Basit said the order had been passed not less a person than a prime minister but the same remained unimplemented, which was very astonishing.