KARACHI, Sept 19: Law and order situation was created when a KBCA team started demolishing extended portions of ground floor flats of Karimabad Cooperative Housing Society.

The KBCA officials who were accompanied by a contingent of police were allegedly manhandled by over a hundred women and children who assembled to resist the demolition of extended portions on ground floor of Aga Khan flats, built on Plot No ST-3.

The KBCA’s Gulberg Town building controller (TBCO), Zafar Ahson, who was heading the team, told Dawn that the action against the extended portion was being taken on court orders, as well as on the complaint of Karimabad Cooperative Housing Society’s president, Ms Gul Bano.

“As soon as we started demolition, over 150 women and children reached the site and started misbehaving with the team,” he said, adding “some of the protestors also manhandled the president of cooperative society.”

He said he had brought the issue to the notice of Gulberg town nazim and TPO.

According to the TBCO, there are 90 flats whose portions have been extended beyond permissible limits.

Refuting the TBCO’s claim, some residents said the matter was still pending in court.