ISLAMABAD - The Supreme Court on Monday directed the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP) Government to submit a report about the regularisation of contract employees of the Public Safety & Police Complaints Commission in Grade-17.

A three-member SC bench comprising Chief Justice of Pakistan Gulzar Ahmed, Justice Ijaz Ul Ahsan and Justice Sayyed Mazahar Ali Akbar Naqvi heard the case regarding the regularisation of contractual employees of KP Public Safety & Police Complaints Commission.

During the course of proceedings, Justice Ijaz asked the employees' lawyer as to how the petitioners were promoted without any test / examination by the Public Service Commission.  Justice Mazahar asked as to why a scrutiny committee had not yet been formed on the issue. The employees' counsel said the services of all except a few contract employees had been regularised. The civil judges were also appointed without a competitive examination, he added. Upon this, Justice Ijaz responded that the lower judiciary judges were not appointed through the Public Service Commission as there was a different criteria for the appointments.

SC directs KP govt to submit reply over regularisation of Grade-17 contract employees

The CJP remarked that the court could not regularize the service of anyone as it was the job of government. The KP Advocate General said all the employees had been upgraded. Since the employees had filed a contempt of court petition, so they were also regularized. The chief justice said the courts could not regularize the services of employees. Later, the court sought a reply from the KP Government on the issue of recruitment of employees in Grade 17 and summoned the KP Advocate General in person on the next hearing.