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LHC removes law college principal
LAHORE,
June 1: The Lahore High Court has removed the University Law College
principal from her post on the grounds that her appointment was in
violation of the varsity policy and based on nepotism.
Justice Hafiz Tariq Naseem issued these directions while hearing a
petition moved by Ammara Akbar, an advocate, seeking admission to
the LLM and challenging the appointment of Shazia Qureshi, the
acting principal. Ms Akbar had attained the required marks but could
not pass the interview.
Ms Qureshi’s husband Prof Dr Mujahid Kamran is Punjab University
vice-chancellor.
“No doubt Shazia Qureshi was foreign qualified but she was an
assistant professor in college, while according to the university
calendar and University of the Punjab Act 1973, principal should
only be appointed by syndicate on the recommendation of VC from
amongst three senior most professors,” the judge observed.
He disagreed with the contention of respondent’s counsel that Ms
Qureshi’s appointment was a stopgap arrangement due to
non-availability of professors or associate professors, giving the
ruling that despite such posts lying vacant no serious attempt was
made to fill them. The principal’s post had been lying vacant since
December 2008.
In the light of this, Justice Nasim stated: “The office of principal
is declared as vacant due to illegal and unlawful appointment by
vice- chancellor. The post would be filled through fresh appointment
in prescribed manner and till that a person possessing requisite
eligibility would be given additional charge of principal for
interim period.”
Regarding Ms Akbar’s plea about her admission to LLM, the judge
rejected her pray observing that Graduate Studies Committee
comprising four member (including two of them LHC judges) had said
that she did not meet the merit.
ADJOURNED: Justice Sharif on Monday adjourned to June 22 a suo motu
hearing into the killing of a woman and her three children in Sadar
Berooni in June 2007.After going through a report submitted by the
Rawalpindi City Police Officer, the judge observed that “no clue of
the accused has been brought on record” and that the CPO had
submitted the investigating officer had been directed to trace out
the accused. The chief justice gave three weeks time to the IO.
The suo motu hearing was issued on April 27, 2009 over the killing
of Zahida Parveen and her three children M. Usman (five), Iraj
(seven) and M. Zubair (12).
The woman’s husband, M. Naseem, a bank guard, came home from work on
June 9, 2007, to find his three children murdered and his wife in
critical condition. She also succumbed to her injuries four days
later.
DAWN.com:
Staff Report:Tuesday, 02 Jun, 2009
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