The Lahore High Court’s Justice Sajid Mehmood Sethi has ordered serving notices on three professors of the School of Communication Studies in a case of out-of-merit appointments at Punjab University during the tenure of former vice-chancellor Dr Niaz Ahmad Akhtar.
Earlier, petitioner Dr Shabbir Sarwar, an associate professor at the same school, made Punjab Governor /Chancellor of Punjab University Balighur Rehman, and the then vice-chancellor, Dr Niaz Ahmad Akhtar, etc party to the case. On the objection of the university’s legal counsel, the court had ordered making the new appointees parties to the case.—INP
