Lahore High Court (LHC) has ordered former principal to vacate official Principal House of the Government College Gulberg. The court issued these orders on Friday while disposing of two petitions filed by one Professor Qazi Ikram Bashir.
Petitioner submitted that he was Principal of Government College Gulberg for Boys, wherein Principal House was also built so as to provide accommodation to its principal. He said the respondent Professor Abdul Razzaq Cheema who was earlier principal of the said college and later posted as Director of Instructions Punjab.
Despite his new posting Professor Cheema did not vacate the principal house as he got permission from the authorities to live in the said accommodation till he got a substitute as per his new assignment. Petitioner challenged this act through a petition and in order to restrain him from pursuing the case he was transferred to another college against which he also filed another petition.
The court in its order observed that as far as the principal accommodation was concerned, since the petitioner has been transferred to another college he did not remain an aggrieved party, and disposed of his petition. However, the court remarked that sequence of circumstances does speak of malafide on the part of respondent with regard to the transfer of the petitioner.
"Not only that he has been transferred after receiving information of filing of this writ petition but his depart also is very unceremonious. He has been relieved in his absence on 18.4.2009, 10 days after filing the writ petition by him," the court observed.
The court further observed that I cannot be considered as advisable to grant the principal residence in any of educational institution to a person who was no more a principal. The court therefore directed the competent authority to get the principal house vacated immediately but not later than eight weeks. The court also directed that in future it should be decided as policy that such houses should only be allowed to be retained by the principal and no other authority whosoever it may be should be allotted the said house.
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