KARACHI, July 28: Justice Mushir Alam of the Sindh High Court on Thursday adjourned the hearing of a suit filed by the Arabian Sea Enterprises, a Kuwaiti group owning majority shares of Karachi Sheraton hotel, against the owners of 10 shops till Aug 3.
Earlier, Tariq Ali, advocate, who was appointed commissioner to visit the sites in dispute and to submit a report, placed a three-page inspection memo.
He stated that as the entrance to these shops located in front
of the hotel are welded and locked, so the same may be allowed to open for making inventory.
The plaintiffs prayed to the court to issue a permanent injunction restraining the defendants Pervaiz Hussain and his wife Farhat Hussain from re-possessing the shops and from threatening the plaintiffs’ staff.
The plaintiff maintains that defendants are licensees of plaintiffs’ shop 4, 5,6,8,9,13, 3 and 7 and the last agreements were signed between the parties in the year 2002 which have already expired.
The defendants are attempting to re-possess shops and are resorting to all types of pressures for achieving this objective, the plaintiff maintained, adding hotel involves huge foreign investment from a friendly country.
The court, perusing the report of the commissioner in view of request by the counsel for defendants seeking time to file the rejoinder, put off further proceedings till Aug 3.—APP
