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KARACHI, May 10: The Sindh High Court stayed the sale and purchase of property in a housing project on Abul Ispahani Road on Monday.
Additional Advocate-General M. Ahmed Pirzada submitted that the project, Rufi Bara Market, encroached on five acres of prime government land and the high court had passed a stay order Oct 3, 2003. The court nazir, who was asked to carry out site inspection confirmed that the project occupied government land. Another piece of land is claimed by the private plaintiff, Mrs Shahida Zafar.
The AAG said the nazir found 80 of the 300 bungalows occupied by the allottees. The allotment had been made in violation of the status quo order. He said the Rufi Builders may disposed of more bungalows and create third party interests and an interim injunction to restrain them from doing so pending the hearing of the suit was necessary to protect the suit land.
Justice Sajjad Ali Shah, who is seized of the suit, asked the nazir to conduct another inspection of the project and ‘if any construction is found to have been raised after Oct 3, 2003, or after his first inspection, he shall seal the property as well as affix a notice of attachment’.
DEMOLITION ORDERED: A division bench, comprising Justices M. Mujibullah Siddiqui and Syed Zawwar Hussain Jaffery, meanwhile, allowed the Karachi Building Control Authority to demolish the building constructed on plot WO-7/21, near City Courts, M .A. Jinnah Road.
According to the petitioner non-governmental organization, the building has been raised on the cut line. Advocate Abdul Jabbar Korai, petitioner’s counsel, said encroachment has to be removed as there is no provision in the law to regularize it. The bench asked the KBCA to demolish the building in accordance with the law.
DRUGS FOR HOSPITALS: Another division bench adjourned the hearing of a petition questioning the city district government decision to buy medicines for its hospitals from national and multinational manufacturers.
The petitioners said they had been supplying drugs to hospitals for the past several years and there was no complaint against themCDGK counsel Manzoor Ahmed filed a counter-affidavit saying that 83 reputed manufacturers were short-listed and pre-qualified to ensure supply of quality medicines in an open and transparent public bidding. The manufacturers could be relied upon to supply standard drugs as their goodwill and reputation would be at stake. The CDGK has also eliminated the middlemen.
