ISLAMABAD: Lahore Ghulam Mehmood Dogar, a Capital City Police Officer (CCPO), was reinstated by the Supreme Court on Friday.
A three-member bench led by Justice Ijazul Ahsan issued the restoration orders after hearing the CCPO’s Dogar’s petition.
In response to Dogar’s appeal of the Federal Service Tribunal’s (FST) ruling, the notice was given to the federal government.
The Federal Service Tribunal restored Dogar. His attorney, Abid Zuberi, informed the supreme court that the reinstatement ruling was, in fact, suspended by a two-member bench of the tribunal.
A two-member tribunal bench cannot, according to Zuberi, suspend the judgement of another bench.
According to the attorney for CCPO Dogar, the tribunal was simultaneously hearing the government’s review petition.
Justice Ahsan questioned how one tribunal bench could overrule the ruling of another bench.
The special bench, he said, had also issued orders of suspension and had ruled that the petition had been brought too soon.
The high court’s statement that the constitutional case is not worthy of hearing was questioned by Justice Mazahar Naqvi.
The provincial administration does not wish to release CCPO, lawyer Zuberi retorted.
After reinstating Dogar as the Lahore CCPO, the court put the hearing on indefinite hold.
A suspension of CCPO
On November 5, the federal government immediately suspended Lahore CCPO Dogar. The action was taken a day after an enraged crowd of PTI supporters protested outside Governor House in Lahore over the attempted murder of party leader Imran Khan.
The officer went to the Lahore High Court to contest his dismissal as the CCPO (LHC). He also filed an FST motion opposing his suspension.
On November 8, the LHC rejected Dogar’s request, claiming that it lacked jurisdiction over the matter.
In the meanwhile, on November 10, the tribunal composed of Asim Akram and Mushtaq Jadoon issued a two-page written decision suspending the federal government’s November 5 notification.
The panel upheld Dogar’s appeal against the federal government’s decision and ruled that his suspension was illegal and against the rulings of the supreme court.
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