KARACHI, April 19: The Sindh High Court on Thursday imposed Rs25,000 as costs on a petitioner society which falsified information to seek action against a builder and the Karachi Building Control Authority.

A non-governmental organisation moved a petition alleging that a multi-storied commercial structure was being raised on a residential plot (No A-40, Block 13-D, Gulshan-i-Iqbal). A division bench comprising Justices Amir Hani Muslim and Mrs Yasmin Abbasy sought a report to ascertain the correct position. It transpired that a ground-plus-one floor bungalow was approved for the residential plot by the KBCA in 1999. A bungalow has been constructed in accordance with the plan and there was no violation involved. There was no multi-storied structure or commercial complex on the plot.

Awarding the costs in favour of the owner of the bungalow, the bench ordered that the petitioner society would not move a new petition without paying the costs.

The bench also directed the chief controller of buildings to submit a report in respect of residential plot number B-20, Block 13-A, Gulshan-i-Iqbal, which, according to another NGO has been commercialised by the builder.

According to the petitioner society, 54 shops have been built on the plot. A report submitted by a deputy controller of buildings was found to be inadequate and the bench asked the CCOB to explain the correct position.

BALOCH COLONY PS: Justice Zawwar Hussain Jaffery, meanwhile, directed the DIG (Operations) and the Jamshed Town police officer to answer the allegation that the police force had illegally occupied a 1000-square-yard plot in Baloch Colony and raised unauthorised construction on it.