SC declares promotion of 80 bureaucrats illegal

SC declares promotion of 80 bureaucrats illegal
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Summary These promotion were made during Ex-PM Raja Pervez Ashraf's tenure.

ISLAMABAD (Web Desk) - Supreme Court of Pakistan has declared the promotion of eighty bureaucrats as null and void.

Grade-20 and 21 officers are among the bureaucrats.

Announcing the verdict in a civil servants promotion case‚ a three-judge bench of the apex court headed by Chief Justice Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry declared that promotions made during former Prime Minister Raja Pervez Ashraf s tenure were illegal.

The court directed that the process should be carried out purely on merit and a new board should be established for the promotion of the officers. 

Promotion Policy 2013 and Civil Services Act should also be brought into consideration for officers  promotion, the court said.