Staff Reporter :
The High Court (HC) on Tuesday issued a rule upon the respondents to show cause as to why they should not be directed to appoint Md Ashraful Islam, who qualified 24th BCS preliminary and written test in
2003 and faced viva voce in 2017, to any cadre or non-cadre post with retrospective or prospective effect.
In the rule, the court also wanted to know as to why the inaction and failure of the respondents to appoint the petitioner to any cadre or non-cadre post with retrospective or prospective effect completing all necessary procedures shall not be declared to have been done illegally.
Secretary of Public Administration, Chairman of Public Service Commission, Controller of the Examination (Cadre) of PSC and Director (Examiner) of PSC will have to comply with the rule within four weeks.
The HC bench of Justice Sheikh Hassan Arif and Justice Razik Al Jalil passed the order after hearing a writ petition filed by Md Ashraful Islam to get appointment as a BCS cadre.
Barrister Shihab Uddin Khan and Advocate Nazmul Huda appeared in the court on behalf of the petitioner.
It was said in the petition, PSC did not take petitioner’s viva voce of 24th BCS in due time as he failed to submit his father’s freedom fighter certificate provided from the concerned Ministry. Later he collected the required certificate. Then the PSC promised several times to take his viva. In the mean time six years had passed. Then the petitioner filed a writ petition with the HC in 2011 seeking to take his viva. Following the writ petition the HC ordered to the PSC to take his viva. Then the PSC filed review petition against the HC order. The HC rejected the review petition in 2014. After a long harassment, PSC took viva of Ashraful Islam on January 2 in 2017. But the organization did not publish any result for him yet.
In this circumstance, the petitioner filed a writ petition with the HC seeking appointment in a cadre post. After hearing the HC issued rule yesterday.
