HYDERABAD, Jan 26: A division bench of the Sindh High Court, Hyderabad circuit, on Saturday has appointed the court’s additional registrar as commissioner to inspect the site of a housing scheme to determine facts whether it was being carried out according to the plan approved.
The court said that a licensed architect would also accompany the additional registrar.
The registrar has been asked to submit his report within three weeks.
Abdul Majeed Qazi had filed a constitutional petition through Advocate S. Masood Ali, citing the chairman, governing body of the Hyderabad Development Authority (HDA); the director general, HDA; the director, Planning and Development Control; the director, Building Control Department; and two private respondents.
The petitioner claimed that the private respondents had started a housing scheme as the Ahsanabad Housing Scheme, which was duly approved and its layout plan was passed by the HDA.
He added that the private respondents after seeking approval did not execute the scheme as per the terms and conditions laid down in the plan and made wilful deviation from the approved plan in violation of the relevant rules, regulations and provisions contained in the Sindh Building Control Ordinance (SBCO) 1979/82 and Had Act-XIII of 1976.
The petitioner said that the private respondents, in order to earn more money, started disposing of amenity plots of a mosque, hospital, park, school, roads, sewerage and water lines of the said scheme, and added that they also reduced the width of the road notwithstanding the fact that to date the sewerage and water supply lines had not been laid in the scheme.
He said that the residents of the said scheme were facing a number of problems.
DPO: The district police officer (Operations), A. D. Khwaja, late Saturday night sent two policemen to quarter guard for conducting snap checking on the main road in the jurisdiction of the Seri police station of the Husri police given the fact that constables and head constables were not allowed to conduct checking without an ASI.
Head Constable Azeem and Constable Manak were subjecting the motorcyclists in the absence of an ASI of the police post.
