The High Court Monday suspended appointment of more than five thousand employees of third and fourth grade in the health sector.
The HC bench of Justice Farah Mahbub and Justice AKM Zahirul Hoque halted the appointment process for three months following two separate petitions filed in this regard.
Besides, it also issued a rule as to why the appointment process should not be scrapped. Seven including the secretaries of health and public administration ministries, director generals of the health and family planning departments have to respond to the rule.
The health department issued a job circular for 915 posts at the Daily Ittefaq on November 22, 2012. The Family Planning department on March 21 published a recruitment circular for 4,294 posts in its website.
Supreme Court lawyer Aftab Uddin Siddique and two job candidates named Tariqul Islam and Abdullah-Hill Mahbub recently filed a writ petition claiming that there were irregularities in the recruitment process.