Get the latest news and updates from Dawn
KARACHI: The Sindh High Court has dismissed for not being maintainable a petition challenging reappointment of a recently retired associate professor of the Jinnah Sindh Medical University (JSMU).
Petitioner Dr Memoona Rehman, an associate professor at the JSMU, moved the SHC against the Aug 5 decision of the Sindh cabinet and a subsequent letter issued by the Universities & Board Department regarding the impugned appointment of Dr Nighat Shah on Aug 10.
Her counsel Malik Naeem Iqbal submitted in the petition that his client, being a regularly appointed associate professor in the same specialty, was directly aggrieved by the impugned re-employment of Dr Shah as it affected her legitimate expectation and prospects of promotion to the post of professor.
He also stated that the reemployment / contractual appointment of Dr Shah for three years was made through a person-specific cabinet decision just a couple of days before her superannuation and the same was illegal, without lawful authority and void ab for being contrary to the JSMU Act, 2013 and the statutes framed thereunder.
