The Azad Jammu and Kashmir (AJK) High Court on Friday ordered the government to provide information about all official vehicles, as well as the names of officers assigned to those vehicles.
The above was directed by the court’s larger bench, led by Chief Justice Sadaqat Hussain Raja, while hearing a petition filed by advocate Malik Mahmood Ali Awan.
The court acted after learning that over Rs. 870 million had been spent on 152 new vehicles in the previous 18 months.
The court also ordered the secretary of services and general administration department (S&GAD), who is also the administrative secretary of Central Transport Pool, to provide information about the officials’ eligibility.
The bench stated that the arbitrary and unjustified use of government vehicles wastes public funds and shifts the burden to the general public.
The order was issued by the court’s larger bench, led by Chief Justice Sadaqat Hussain Raja, as it heard a petition filed by advocate Malik Mahmood Ali Awan on this issue, following reports that more than Rs870 million had been spent on the purchase of 152 new vehicles in the previous 18 months.
Aside from the allottees’ details, the court directed the secretary services and general administration department (S&GAD), who also happens to be the administrative secretary of Central Transport Pool, to submit to it information about the allottees’ entitlement.
“We need complete information on who has been allotted which kind of vehicle and whether this allotment is in accordance with the entitlement of the person concerned or not,” the chief justice said.
The bench believed that arbitrary and unjustified use of government vehicles was wasting public funds and transferring the burden to the general public.
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