The bench, headed by the chief justice, adjourned the hearing till October 10 and observed that no further adjournment would be granted in the case. The judge said final arguments would be heard on the same day.
On Wednesday, advocate Azam Nazir Tarar, counsel for the governor/chancellor, told the court that the Supreme Court had also reserved a judgment on the petition of a professor of Bahudin Zakria University. He requested the court to wait for the SC order as certain legal points had been raised in the petition. He said it had also been pointed out before the SC that if the chief minister s advice under article 105 was binding on the government and, if so, to what extent.
Senior advocate Anwar Kamal, counsel for Dr. Hassan Amir Shah, argued that the order of the court would directly affect 89 persons who were short listed by the search committee and all should be made party in the case. The court, however, said there was no need to make them party.
On it, the Anwar Kamal pointed out that appointment of vice chancellors at two universities - Government College University Lahore and Bahudin Zakria University Multan - were already in question before the court. But the VCs of remaining four universities were not party in the case and the final outcome of the ICA would also affect them.
The court agreed with Kamal and directed the Punjab advocate general to inform the VCs of the four universities - University of Education, Lahore; University of Sargodha; Lahore College for Women University, Lahore; and Fatima Jinnah University for Women Rawalpindi - to join the proceedings on the next hearing.
Dr. Yousaf Hayat, Dr. Shaukat Ali and Dr. Maqbool Hussain Sial filed these appeals. A single bench comprising Justice Nasir Saeed Sheikh had on June 24 last dismissed their writ petitions against the appointment of VCs and declared that the Punjab government s search committee had been acting lawfully and no irregularities were found in the process of appointment.
Veena case: Civil Judge Imtiaz Malik on Wednesday issued the final notice to actress Veena Malik by October 10 on a petition, seeking damages for not paying wages to her former employees.
The court strictly ordered actress to appear before the court on October 10, otherwise, she would be summoned through an advertisement in newspapers. Muhammad Mushtaq had filed a petition in the court of Additional District and Sessions Judge Rana Zahid, seeking registration of a case against Veena.
He contended that Veena had not paid him and his wife for three months and when they went to her house to take their salary, Veena badly thrashed them. He prayed to the court to direct the police to register an FIR against Veena.
drug peddler: Additional District and Sessions Judge Khizer Hayat Sial on Wednesday awarded two-year jail term to a drug peddler, Muhammad Iftikhar.
The court also imposed a fine of Rs 10,000 on the convict. In case of default in payment of fine, the convict would face further imprisonment of one month.
The Chuhang police had recovered two kilograms of hashish from Muhammad Iftikhar and registered a case against him. On Wednesday, the court awarded punishment to the drug trafficker on finding him guilty of committing the crime.
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