The Sindh High Court on Wednesday issued notices to the provincial advocate general and police chief as well as others on a petition of a couple seeking protection and the restoration of the.
KARACHI: The Sindh High Court on Tuesday directed the investigating officer of a case to appear in person along with a progress report regarding the investigation of an alleged police encounter in which a Sindh University student was killed.
A police officer informed a two-judge SHC bench headed by Justice Naimatullah Phulpoto that the matter was under investigation, but the IO of the case was found absent.
Jan Mohammad had approached the SHC stating that his cousin, Irfan Ali Jatoi, was picked up by personnel of law enforcement agencies on Feb 10 from his house located within the remit of the Shah Latif Town (Karachi) police station.
Minimum wage policy has neither raised income nor stopped exploitation, says SHC
Karachi
March 16, 2021
The Sindh High Court has observed that the minimum wage policy has not helped increase the income of domestic workers or protected them from exploitation by their employers.
Disposing of a petition seeking the payment of the minimum wage to all janitorial workers of the cantonment boards in Karachi, a division bench comprising Justice Mohammad Shafi Siddiqui and Adnan-ul-Karim Memon observed that the janitorial staff (sweepers) working on daily wages or a contract basis got a little amount per month.
The court observed that the enforcement of the minimum wage law is not the only problem for the time being; the sheer injustice and massive exploitation of the legal rights of hard-working unskilled minimum wage workers is also an issue.
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The petitioner contended that there were 21 PSP DIGs in BS-20 who had been working under Sindh government for more than 10 years in violation of the promotion policy 2020. Photo courtesy Wikimedia Commons/File
KARACHI: The Sindh High Court on Monday suspended recent transfer of six deputy inspectors general of Sindh police from the province as the federal and provincial authorities sought further time to file comments.
The petitioner contended that there were 21 PSP DIGs in BS-20 who had been working under Sindh government for more than 10 years in violation of the promotion policy 2020 but only six of them had been transferred.