KARACHI, Feb 2: A division bench of the Sindh High Court, consisting of Justices Syed Zawwar Hussain Jaffery and Maqbool Baqar, has issued a bailable warrant for the Jamshed Town nazim’s arrest when he failed to appear before it on Thursday.
The town nazim was summoned in a petition alleging that an entire 40-feet wide street between two rows of houses in Block 6 of the Pakistan Employees Co-operative Housing Society had been usurped by ‘land mafia’. The petitioner said many houses in the street had become inaccessible due to the conversion of the street into a housing lane.
The city district government and Karachi Building Control Authority counsel informed the bench that the removal of encroachment from roads and other public places fell within the purview of the town administration under the Sindh Local Government Ordinance.
THREATS: The practice of issuing threats to prisoners by jail and other government functionaries shall be stopped and checked, observed a division bench of High Court of Sindh (SHC), headed by Chief Justice Sabihuddin Ahmed, here on Thursday, add agencies.
Justice Ali Sain Dino Metlo was the other member of the bench.
The bench was hearing a petition filed by wife of detainee Zahid Hussain, an exporter from Punjab imprisoned in a fraud case.
