LAHORE: Justice Ayesha A Malik of the Lahore High Court on Friday (today) will take up two separate petitions by bar members questioning alleged irregularities in promotion/elevation of all assistant registrars working in the establishment of the high court. Mian Maqsood Ahmad and Asadullah Virk, both members of the Lahore High Court Bar Association, mainly argued in their petitions that all serving assistant registrars had been elevated without observance of procedure that include pre-promotion examination, a pre-requisite and mandatory according to the rules. Advocate Ahmad pleads in his petition that the illegal and unlawful assistant registrars had been appointed or promoted by then chief justices of the LHC in exercise of discretionary powers under rule 26 of appointment and conditions of Service Rules. He said the high court appointment and condition of sub rules 8 & 9 categorically provided that no such appointment could straight away be made as observance of the sub rules was mandatory and obligatory prior to making such appointments.
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