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Apex court reserves judgement on federation’s appeal against restoration of PMDC Registrar

F.P. Report

ISLAMABAD: The Supreme Court on Wednesday reserved the judgement on federation’s appeal against restoration of Pakistan Medical and Dental Council’s (PMDC) Registrar.

A three-member bench of the apex court headed by Chief Justice Gulzar Ahmed heard the case.

During the course of proceedings, the Attorney General said that Registrar PMDC broke locks and entered the building.

The Chief Justice stopped the Registrar PMDC from entering the building till decision of the case. If the registrar was in his office, leave the PMDC building, he added.

The Attorney General said that Registrar PMDC was appointed under the 2019 Ordinance.

Justice Ijaz Ul Ahsan said that the high court had suspended the PMDC Ordinance.

He asked how could the deployment under the law be restored if the law was repealed. He said that at the request of the contempt of court, the high court could not issue such an order.

The Chief Justice said that the high court restored Pakistan Medical Commission (PMC) employees, not PMDCs.

Justice Ijaz Ul Ahsan said that the PMDC had the power to make decisions regarding registrar and employees.

The Chief Justice said that the registration process of thousands of doctors was pending.

The Attorney General said that the court should appoint a former judge as president of the PMDC. By law, a retired judge could be the head of the council, he added.

He said it was the discretion of the apex court to re-appoint Justice Shakirullah Jan or another judge. The council would become active as soon as its head was appointed, he added.

The Frontier Post

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