سپریم کورٹ نے سرکاری افسران کے لیے "صاحب" کا لفظ استعمال کرنے پر پابندی لگادی۔

 PLD 2024 SUPREME COURT 73
Crl.P.149-P/2023
Javid Khan v. Arshid Khan and another
Mr. Justice Qazi Faez Isa

مردان میں 9 سال کے بچے کے قتل کیس کی سپریم کورٹ میں سماعت کے دوران ڈی ایس پی کے ساتھ "صاحب" کا لفظ استعمال کیا گیا، عدالت نے قرار دیا کہ صاحب کے لفظ کا استعمال کسی آزاد قوم کی عکاسی نہیں کرتا۔سرکاری ملازم صاحب کے لفظ سے خود کو احتساب سے بالاتصور کرتے ہیں۔

سپریم کورٹ نے فیصلے کی کاپی آئی جی، ایڈووکیٹ جنرل کے پی اور محکمہ داخلہ کے پی کو بھیجنے کا حکم دیا۔

The learned AAG referred to the Deputy Superintendent of Police as ‘DSP sahib’. It is about time that the practice of adding the word sahib with one’s job title is discontinued, as it unnecessarily elevates the status of public servants, which may instil in them delusions of grandeur and a perception of unaccountability, which is unacceptable since it is against the interests of the public whom they are meant to serve.

A practice has also developed whereby despite prior notice to the State preparation of the case is done before the Court, rendering this Court into an office of the prosecution. Rather than attending to the matter with the seriousness that it deserves two police officers, who are investigating the crime travelled from Peshawar to bring documents which could have been e-mailed, faxed or sent by Whatsapp, and then the relevant documents could have been filed, which would have been useful in determining the outcome of this bail application.