HYDERABAD, Jan 21: A division bench of the Sindh High Court, Hyderabad circuit benct, has appointed an additional registrar to visit the site of one of the cattle pens, which are to be shifted from various areas of the city, and submit his report in this regard on Jan 28.
Both the parties have been asked to be present on the site during the visit of the court official.
The court directed this after filing of a civil miscellaneous petition by 19 cattle owners praying for restraining the respondent officials from dispossessing them from their present cattle holding area and moving them to the new Cattle Colony till the provision of required facilities.
In their petition, they said that the respondent officials wanted to shift them to an undeveloped site near Tando Mohammad Khan.
Complaining about the respondents move to dispossess them of their cattle holding area in the city on Sanghatwa Road, they said that the new site did not have electricity, water and sewerage facilities. They said that the staff of respondent officials had also threatened to detain them in police lock- ups.
The miscellaneous application was filed in connection with the constitutional petition that was filed by cattle traders earlier.
The title of the petition was amended under court directives because earlier only the Hyderabad Municipal Corporation (HMC) was concerned with the affairs of cattle pens and cattle trade while the Latifabad Taluka Council and the Taluka City Council had been formed under the devolution plan.
The petitioners argued that they had been doing business as commission agents for cattle for the past 70 years and had asked concerned authorities to transfer the plots to them.
They said that the respondents had established a cattle colony in Deh Guner, Tando Mohammad Khan road in 1987 to shift hundreds of cattle pens, which were posing serious sanitary problems for the city.
Compensation demanded: The Sunni Tehrik has threatened to go to court if the people affected by the bomb blast of Dec 21, 2002, were not paid compensation by Jan 30.
Speaking at a news conference here on Tuesday, the divisional convener of the Tehrik, Mohammad Khalid Kadri, said that a poor worker, Shahbaz, who was the sole bread earner of his family, was killed in the incident but the authorities had not offered condolences to the bereaved family.
He said that he had sent a letter to the chief minister of Sindh and to the DCO, Hyderabad, without any results so far.
Expressing his displeasure over the deteriorating law and order situation, he said that dacoities, thefts and car lifting had become the order of the day.
Kadir demanded of the Sindh governor, the chief minister, the president and the prime minister to sanction Rs500,000 for the heirs of the bomb blast victim.
