Promotion board meeting

THE recently-appointed former police service chairman could not help exhibit his personal biases during the promotion board meeting of PAS (erstwhile DMG) officers.

Although more than 100 vacancies existed in BS 20 and officers met the prescribed criteria for promotion to BS 20, they were denied promotion only because the chairman thought police service officers would be at disadvantaged position due to these promotions.

The chairman did not take long to prove the apprehensions tormenting sane minds who raised eyebrows on the appointment of a long-time retired policeman as chairman of an institution in which people retained some confidence due to its impartial and transparent dispensation.

But as expected the new ex-police service chairman has made the first big dent in its repute.

This is a typical case of executive injustice and arbitrariness which compels the aggrieved to have recourse to the already overburdened judiciary.

It is the incompetence of executives to take merit-based decisions that often creates ample grey areas to be rightly appropriated by the judiciary.

M.H. CHOHAN
Lahore

Dawn