A group of officers from the Intelligence Bureau (IB) has sought review of the Supreme Court’s Aug 17 judgement which rendered almost 17,000 government employees jobless, says Dawn.
Moved by Senator Raza Rabbani on behalf of 154 employees of the IB on Friday, the petition pleaded with the apex court to set aside Justice Mushir Alam’s judgement of Aug 17, his last day in office, which declared as illegal and unconstitutional a PPP-era law, known as the Sacked Employees (Reinstatement) Ordinance Act (SERA) of 2010. Under the law, a number of people were reinstated or promoted with retrospective effect.
Earlier, the federal government had filed a petition on Sept 28 through Additional Attorney General Sajid Ilyas Bhatti with a plea to the apex court to recall the Aug 17 judgement as well as to suspend operation of the verdict.
17,000 government staffers lost their jobs because of apex court’s Aug 17 verdict
The judgement stirred a furore and led to a sit-in outside parliament at a time when President Dr Arif Alvi was addressing the joint session on Sept 13.
