KARACHI - The Sindh High Court (SHC) on Monday rejected petition of a former secretary of Spe[1]cial Education Department against NAB arrest warrant in illegal recruitment case. A bench of the high court turned down the plea of for[1]mer secretary Noor Moham[1]mad against arrest warrants issued by the National Ac[1]countability Bureau (NAB) with regard to a reference about illegal recruitment in the special education depart[1]ment. Earlier, the counsel of former secretary Noor Mo[1]hammad argued that issuance of an arrest warrant after fil[1]ing the reference is unlawful. “In the special education department 294 employees were illegally appointed. The accused had given 99 percent numbers to each candidate,” NAB prosecutor said in the court. The NAB filed a reference after collecting evidence against the accused, the pros[1]ecutor told the court. The National Accountabil[1]ity Bureau had arrested for[1]mer Sindh special education secretary Noor Muhammad Laghari from outside the Sindh High Court in Karachi in February this year. The court had cancelled the bails of Laghari, and seven others in the case. The NAB has accused them of hiring 294 people illegally in the special education department between 2012 and 2019 in Karachi, Hyderabad and Suk[1]kur regions