PESHAWAR: The Peshawar High Court has ordered the recovery of Rs92,168 from Mingora bench reader and assistant registrar Alamgir Khan and withholding of increment for three years for illegally drawing financial assistance from the Benazir Income Support Programme.

It ordered the depositing of the recovered amount to the exchequer.

The action was taken by the court under the Efficiency and Disciplinary Rules, said a news release issued here.

Also, the high court demoted Kohistan district and sessions judge (BPS-21) Irshad Ahmad Khan to the post of additional district and sessions judge (BPS-20) for two years on disciplinary grounds.

The action was taken under the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Government Servants (Efficiency and Disciplinary) Rules, 2011.

The demotion notification said on restoration to the original post, the judge would be placed below his erstwhile juniors promoted to higher posts during the subsistence of the punishment period.

Published in Dawn, July 4th, 2020

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