July 16, 2008	Wednesday	Rajab 12, 1429

KARACHI, July 15: The city district government has allotted plots to unlawful occupants of a stretch of land behind the cantonment station to pave the way for construction of a link road to the Race Course, a division bench of the Sindh High Court was informed on Tuesday.

The bench, which consisted of Justices Mrs Qaiser Iqbal and Khwaja Naveed Ahmed, was hearing a petition moved by 35 occupants of land in Millat Colony. The CDGK district officer (revenue-enforcement) Abdul Malik Khan submitted that 80-square-yard plots had already been allotted to the petitioners in Scheme 45, Malir, as against much smaller plots occupied by them.

He said the petitioners had encroached upon the land earmarked for a link road to the Race Course, yet the city government had taken a lenient view and provided them alternative residential plots. The petitioners, CDGK counsel Manzoor Ahmed said, were free to collect their documents from the Malir Development Authority office.

The bench extended the interim injunction granted to the petitioners against demolition of their structures at Millat Colony by 15 days and adjourned further hearing of the case to July 31.

Meanwhile, Tando Allahyar District Nazim Rahila Magsi has moved a petition alleging that the district coordination officer and the executive district officer (revenue) are conspiring to unseat her at the behest of her political rivals.