ISLAMABAD, Sept 15: The Supreme Court on Tuesday served notices on City Nazim Karachi Naimatullah and the owner of an amusement park in Karachi to submit parawise comments by Sept 24 on a petition against the closure of the park.
A three-member SC bench, comprising Justice Hamid Ali Mirza, Justice Mian Shakirullah Jan and Justice Tassadduq Hussain Jilani, also summoned the AG Sindh to appear before the court on the next date.
The bench was hearing a joint petition moved by Moulvi Syed Iqbal Haider and three other former employees of the park against a Sindh High Court order, rejecting the petition, challenging the Karachi administration order of closing the Alladin amusement park.
The petitioners before the Supreme Court have pleaded to set aside the high court order and declare the decision of the city nazim of prohibiting the operation of swings, rides, swimming pools and water slide as arbitrary, illegal and unjustified.
Since coming into operation of the amusement park, they contended, only three or four incidents have been reported when thousands of families visit daily for enjoyment.
The petitioners also recalled that after the incidents, the city government had constituted a committee to probe the tragic incident. The committee in its report had never recommended closure of the entire amusement park, except sealing the swing (which had killed the boy) unless a safety certificate was issued by the concerned department.
