ISLAMABAD:
The Sindh Public Service Commission (SPSC) has approached the Federal Constitutional Court (FCC), challenging the orders of the Sindh High Court (SHC) which halted the recruitment process under the Combined Competitive Examination (CCE)-2024 and ordered production of confidential examination records before the court.
The petition seeks stay of the SHC orders dated May 14, 2026 and June 22, 2026, under which relief was granted to the unsuccessful candidates at the first hearing, followed by directions to seal, collect and produce their confidential examination records and responses before the High Court.
According to the SPSC, these instructions effectively suspended its ongoing recruitment process. The case was fixed for hearing on June 30 before an FCC division bench headed by Chief Justice Amin-ud-Din Khan.
Lawyer Hafiz Ahsaan Ahmad Khokhar represents the SPSC in court.
According to the petition, the CCE-2024 was conducted in strict compliance with the Sindh Public Service Commission Act, 2022 and Recruitment Management Regulations, 2023, for recruitment to various posts in the provincial civil service.
The commission maintains that the entire review process was conducted in a transparent, fair and consistent manner with the statutory framework.
The petition states that the advertisement for CCE-2024 was published on December 2, 2024, attracting 26,742 applications. After careful consideration, a selection test was held on October 11, 2025, in which 11,179 candidates qualified for the written exam.
The written exam was conducted from December 22 to 29, 2025. Out of 4,340 candidates who appeared, only 70 qualified after evaluating their answer copies, and the result was declared on May 6, 2026.
After the results were announced, seven unsuccessful candidates filed constitutional appeals alleging a lack of transparency and irregularities in the review process.
The SPSC maintains that the allegations are based on mere speculation and are not supported by any evidence of fraud, bad faith, falsification or violation of applicable examination rules.
The commission argued that the Constitutional Bench of the SHC had granted relief at the first hearing without issuing any notice to either the Sindh government or the SPSC.
It further said that by its order dated June 22, the SHC directed that the confidential examination records and answer scripts of the petitioners be secured, sealed and produced before the court through the Sessions Judge, Hyderabad.
The commission argued that the court granted substantial interim relief without first determining issues relating to maintainability, availability of alternative legal remedy, and locus standi of the petitioners.
