KARACHI, April 27: The Sindh High Court on Friday ordered attachment of a 14-acre plot in North Karachi pending an inquiry into its conversion.Representing the city district government, Advocate Syed Jamil Ahmed submitted that plot number 19, 14-B, North Karachi Township was an amenity plot, which was unlawfully allotted by the defunct Karachi Development Authority officials.
He said he would submit the report of an inquiry being conducted into illegal allotment of the amenity plot by the city district government within three weeks.
The allottees’ counsel, Gohar Iqbal, said the plot belonged to the central government and was converted into a residential area for settlement and rehabilitation of refugees. A non-governmental society submitted as intervener through Advocate Rizwan H. Nadeem that the plot was earmarked for development of a park and could not be used for any other purpose.
A division bench comprising Justices Mohammad Moosa K. Leghari and Amir Hani Muslim adjourned further hearing to May 18.
KBCA STAYED: The same bench also passed an order to restrain the Karachi Building Control Authority from demolishing an unauthorised structure on plot number A-293, Block 2, Gulshan-i-Iqbal.
Advocate Syed Jamil Ahmed submitted on behalf of the owner that the plot housed a school on a commercialised road.
There were several educational and other institutions functioning in the area but the KBCA had chosen to act against one institution. The impugned KBCA notice, the counsel said, was discriminatory and mala fide.
The bench issued a notice to the KBCA for May 18 and restrained it from taking any coercive action in the meantime.
