KARACHI, Sept 15: A Sindh High Court division bench asked the Karachi Building Control Authority to pay Rs5000 as costs for not complying with a court order to demolish an unauthorized structure.
A non-governmental organization submitted through Advocate Abdul Jabbar Korai that the KBCA was directed to demolish violative parts of a structure raised on plot number 6, WO-8, Chand Bibi Road, over four months ago but the order was yet to be complied with.
The bench, which consisted of Justices Mushir Alam and Mohammad Afzal Soomro, asked the KBCA to pay costs amounting to Rs5000 within seven days. Heavier costs would be awarded should the authority fail to demolish the structure, the bench warned.
Another division bench, comprising Justices Anwar Zaheer Jamali and Zia Pervez, ordered a builder to pull down an additionalal floor built on plot LY/7/18, Moosa Lane, Saddar, in violation of the approved plan.
NOTICES: The bench issued notices to revenue and land utilization authorities in a petition filed by Advocate Adnan Memon on behalf of the residents of Deh Khadeji ansd Deh Abdar, Malir, against the proposed sale of 12,200 acres to the Defence Housing Authority for its Phase IX.
The petitioners said the land belonged to them and their ancestors. They had their dwellings and ancestral graveyards in about eight villages situated on the land proposed to be sold to the DHA.
The bench, comprising Justices Mushir Alam and Mohammad Afzal Soomro, issued notices the KBCA and other respondents in a petition moved by Moulvi Iqbal Haider and M Imran Shehzad of Awami Himayat Tehrik against the construction of a 17-storeyed building on Abdullah Haroon Road.
The petitioners submitted through Advocate Sohail Hameed that the builder was raising the commercial complex without a no-objection certificate from the board of revenue.
The construction was also in violation of the Karachi Building and Town Planning Regulations. Two plots have unlawfully been merged to build the structure, they alleged.
