Reintroduction of commissionrate system: division bench constituted to hear nazims' petition

Chief Justice Lahore High Court (LHC) on Thursday constituted a division bench to hear a petition moved by different district nazims challenging introduction of commissionrate system through an amendment in Punjab Land Revenue (Amendment) Ordinance, 2008. The bench comprises Justice Mian Saqib Nisar and Justice Iqbal Hameed-ur-Rehman will start hearing from December 8.
The petitioner nazims include Major Tahir Sadiq, district nazim, Attock, Javed Ikhlas, district nazim, Rawalpindi, Chaudhry Shafaat, district nazim, Gujarat, Abdul Rehman Kanju, district nazim, Lodhran, Tariq Bashir Cheema, district nazim, Bahawalpur, Sardar Ghulam Abbas, district nazim, Chakwal, Chaudhry Farrukh Altaf, district nazim, Jhelum, Faisal Mukhtar, district nazim, Multan.
The Petitioner counsel Fawad Chaudhry submitted that the provincial government made amendment in the Punjab Local Government Ordinance, 2001 and appointed commissioners in respective divisions, creating a new sheet of bureaucracy for which a budget of Rs 84.5 million was also approved.
He asserted that the amendment in the law and the subsequent notification in this regard were a violation of the constitution and repealed the Punjab Local Government Ordinance, 2001. The counsel prayed to the court to declare the amendment, the notification illegal and a violation of the constitution.