KARACHI: SHC tells Sindh govt to compensate PPP worker
By Our Staff Reporter
KARACHI, Feb 26: The Sindh High Court asked the Sindh government on Monday to pay a PPP worker Rs9,700 as compensation for the loss of his motorcycle late in 1981.
The petitioner, Jan-i-Alam, was arrested in January 1981 and his motorcycle was seized as ‘case property’. He was among the scores of PPP workers released and sent abroad as part of the deal the Pakistan government made with the hijackers of a PIA plane in March 1981.
The case against him was withdrawn following his return home in 1988. He demanded his motorcycle but the police failed to return it.
The high court passed an order for compensation in March 2004 but the provincial government failed to comply.
The petitioner sued for contempt and a provincial attorney assured a division bench that the compensation would be paid by March 14.
BANK SUMMONED: The Sindh High Court office issued summons on Monday in a 100-million-rupee damages suit filed against a foreign bank and its recovery agent and officials.
The plaintiff, Sadia Moosa, has alleged that she obtained a loan from the bank and was repaying it in agreed installments when her house was raided by its armed recovery officers, who intimidated and humiliated her, used abusive language against her. She was alone at her residence along with her two minor children and it was only after the return of her husband that her ordeal came to an end.
The SHC issued summons to all the defendants and asked them to file their rejoinders by March 15.
HEARING ADJOURNED: The chief justice of Sindh High Court adjourned the hearing of application for transfer of another case being tried by ATC-V in the Central Prison, Karachi, to March 5.
The transfer has been requested by the accused in the US consulate suicide bombing case.
Mr Baloch submitted his comments on the averments made in the application in response to a direction. Advocate M. Ilyas Khan, applicants’ counsel, sought time to file a rejoinder and the CJ, allowing the request, adjourned further hearing.
According to the prosecution, accused Mohammad Tahir rammed his explosives-laden van into a consulate car at the rear entrance to the building on March 2, 2006.
