KARACHI, Feb 19: Justice Mushir Alam of the Sindh High Court barred on Monday the registration of sub-leases of flats in an apartment complex and asked its builder not to create third party interest.

The building is constructed on plot number 170, Garden East, and the Karachi Building Control Authority says that it violates several regulations. Structural changes have been made and columns erected at the entrance of the car parking area.

In another suit, the judge asked the builder to inform the court how many flats in his structure on plot number 50, Bihar Muslim Co-operative Housing Society, have been sold. According to the KBCA, the builder has raised two additional floors, covered the compulsory open space and occupied the building without an occupancy certificate.

The KBCA counsel, Shahid Jamil Khan submitted that a restraint order was necessary to protect the interests of purchasers and sub-lessees of flats.

The bench also adjourned to a date in office the appeals in the Wall Street Journal correspondent Daniel Pearle’s murder case. Ahmed Omar Shaikh was sentenced to death and Salman Saquib, Naseem Fahad and Adil Shaikh to life terms by a Hyderabad anti-terrorism court in July 2002. All four convicts challenged the decision and sought acquittal while the prosecution approached the high court for enhancement of the sentences awarded to the three co-accused to capital punishment.

Meanwhile, a number of cases did not proceed due to the lawyers’ protest over the Quetta suicide bomb incident.