The Supreme Court (SC) today advised the government Wednesday to ponder over using the services of eunuchs to recover the outstanding monies from bank loan defaulters.

According to an estimate submitted by the State Bank in the apex court on Tuesday, around Rs193 billion in bank loans were written off during the period 1997 through 2008. The amount is so huge that Chief Justice Iftikhar Muhammed Chaudhry, in his remarks a day later, while hearing a case in Islamabad today, voiced grief over loot and plunder of national wealth.

The Supreme Court on Tuesday gave a final warning to those who had managed to get their loans written off from financial institutions during the last 38 years and directed the State Bank to furnish a list of loan defaulters right from 1971 to date.

The apex court’s three-member bench headed by the CJ heard the case regarding human rights relating to the eunuchs today.

The court on one occasion in its remarks, urged the federal government and the departments of social welfare to mull over putting the eunuchs on duty as practiced in India for recovery of loans.

The court added eunuchs can have a respectable employment, if appointed so.

The court also directed the inclusion of eunuchs’ names in the voter lists of Department of Social Welfare; the court directed the DCOs to see about the inheritance of the registered eunuchs by locating their relatives.

The hearing on eunuchs’ petition for equal human rights was adjourned for a month.