SHC suspends notification of police officers’ transfer from Sindh
National
March 9, 2021
KARACHI: The Sindh High Court on Monday suspended the Establishment Division’s notifications to transfer five senior police officers from Sindh till further orders.
The interim order came on the petition of Rashid Bohio, who challenged the transfer order of five police officers to other provinces in accordance with the federal government’s rotation policy for PSP and PAS officers. The petitioner submitted that transfer policy was structured in terms of notification of August 5, 2020 which was violative of the transfer policy. The federal government had issued the notification for transferring Fida Hussain Mastoi, Iqbal Dara Dayo, Irfan Ali Baloch, Qamar-uz-Zaman and Munir Ahmed Sheikh from Sindh to the Motorway Police and Punjab Police. He submitted that there were other senior officers who have been ignored for transfer by the federal government under the impugned notification, which primarily and substantially violates the policy.