City wardens move SHC for regularization of service, payment of salaries.

KARACHI -- A division bench of Sindh High Court (SHC) on a petition filed by city wardens asked the government to file their comments by next hearing; otherwise, the court would commence the proceedings ex parte.

Some forty city wardens had filed a constitutional petition in Sindh High Court (SHC) here Thursday praying for getting their services regularized and paying them their salaries, dues and arrears. During the last hearing the SHC had directed the government to file their answer, but they failed to do so.

The petitioners had filed their petition with legal support of Pasban Democratic Party (PDP) through its lawyer Advocate Khuram Lakhani. Making province of Sindh through Secretary, Local Government; Municipal Commissioner KMC, City Mayor, Senior Director, Human Resources, KMC, and Director City Warden KMC respondents.

In their petition they maintained that they joined their duties after fulfilling all the codal formalities including interviews. They said they were issued appointment orders to the Petitioners for different dates from 2007 to 2010 on contractual basis.

They said they performed their duties diligently, bonafidely and satisfied their high-ups with their ultimate performance. They said their contractual period of service was lastly renewed by Order dated 06.08.2018 extending the contractual period for two years which is being validly continuing and the petitioners have been satisfactorily performing their duties.

They said they have already repeatedly requested the respondents for regularization of their services as the contractual period, adding that many of their juniors working in the same department and in the same cadre have already been regularized by the respondents.

They said upon the request of the petitioners the respondents have illegally, unconstitutionally, without jurisdiction stopped their salaries since April 2018 by way of punishment for raising voice for their right to regularize their services and their families are suffering a lot.

They said they have been working and...