HYDERABAD, Sept 8: Offices of revenue officers are likely to be shifted from the collector’s office building to accommodate offices of the district judiciary, informed revenue department sources told this correspondent on Monday.

The shifting of more than 100-year-old revenue record will create problems for the people as an alternate building for revenue offices is yet to be chosen.

A revenue department source said the decision to shift the revenue offices was taken by the Chief Justice of the Sindh High Court and Chief Secretary Dr Mutwakal Kazi had been asked to get the offices vacated.

The existing building houses court rooms of the sessions judge, seven additional district judges, judicial magistrates, offices of EDO, revenue, DO, revenue, DDOs, assistant election commissioner, cane commissioner, prosecution deputy superintendent of the police and other offices.

A newly-constructed revenue building in the premises of the sessions court was recently handed over to the district judiciary for accommodating civil courts as the old civil court building which was in dilapidated condition was being demolished.

SHC Chief Justice Saiyed Saeed Ashhad had visited the city and approved the revenue building for temporary shifting of civil courts.

A man, Momin Bullo, had challenged the reconstruction of the old civil court building as he said it was a cultural heritage, though the work had not been started. Offices of Mukhtiarkars and DDOs that were to be shifted to the new revenue building were subsequently set up in the existing building.

Presently, civil courts, sessions courts and magistrates’ offices are located in the same area but the district judiciary wants to shift the offices to one building.

DCO Mukhtiar Aziz could not be contacted despite repeated calls.

However, another revenue official confirmed that the revenue offices would soon be shifted.