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Excise staff

continues protest

against dismissals

RECORDER REPORT

HYDERABAD: The dismissed employees of Excise and Taxation Department, Hyderabad Division, staged demonstration in front of Hyderabad Press Club on the second consecutive day here on Wednesday.

They were protesting against termination of services of 88 Excise Constables, 36 Junior Clerks and seven Excise Inspectors of Hyderabad Division.

The termination orders where issued by the Director Excise and Taxation on August 27.

It may be mentioned here that over 400 Excise employees, including 77 Excise Inspectors, who were recruited during the regimes of Jam Sadiq Ali and Syed Muzafar Hussain Shah, have been dismissed with one stroke of pen by the provincial government.