ISLAMABAD: A division bench of the Federal Service Tribunal (FST) on Monday issued notices to the Federal Board of Revenue (FBR) to submit reply on cases filed by its employees carrying complaints about ‘promotion’.
A division bench of the FST comprising of members, Syed Rafique Hussain Shah and Dr Nazir Saeed, heard the cases. The bench heard five promotion cases. The bench also heard couple other cases about ‘dismissal’ from services.
After hearing the arguments, the bench issued notices to FBR administration to submit reply in the promotion cases and then adjourned hearing of the cases.
Appellants had filed complaints challenging different measures taken by the board’s administration pertaining to the affairs of employees promotion to higher scales and dismissal from services.
Rukhshanda Babar, Ahmed Hussain,Fakhre Azam,Sami ul Haq andNoor Jamal had submitted promotion matters before the tribunal.
They had prayed the tribunal to direct the department on grant their due scale at the board by ordering their promotion as per rules and regulations. The had complained that the board’s administration had not acted upon their application filed before it and was pursuing a policy of ignoring those applications in violation of board’s rules. They also prayed the tribunal to decide the cases at the earliest in order to bring justice to them which had been denied despite serving for years at the department.
Sajjad Hussain and Haroon Ahmed had submitted complaints about dismissal. They had prayed tribunal to set aside board’s orders sanctioning their dismissal and reinstate them as thy were suffering from board’s unlawful conduct. The bench adjourned hearing of these cases too.
