LAHORE, Aug 13: The one-man commission informed an additional district and sessions judge on Wednesday that the FC College management was carrying out construction work on the campus despite the issuance of status quo orders by the court.

The Lahore Church Council of the United Church (LCCUC) had lodged a complaint with the court that the FC College management was constructing a wall on the campus in violation of court orders. The LCCUC had urged the court to refrain the FCC management from any construction work till further orders.

The one-man commission, Advocate Makhdoom Ghulam Shabbir, confirmed the claim of the LCCUC in his report and said he had visited the college on Aug 11 and found masons constructing the wall on the college premises.

After going through the contents of the report, the court directed that the entire judicial record regarding the suit filed by the LCCUC for the possession of the FC College in a civil court should be produced before it on Aug 16.

It further ordered that status quo regarding the construction work on the FC College would prevail till the next date of hearing.

On the last hearing, the court had stayed the construction work on the LCCUC plea that since a suit for the possession of the FCC was already pending in a civil court, the entire property had become disputed till the final disposal of that suit and no construction could be allowed on the campus.

The LCCUC had been claiming that during 1949 all Presbyterian Churches of North America, working in united India along with the Punjab Mission. were merged in it. A dissolution certificate of Presbyterian Church was also issued.

Following the merger, the LCCUC continued to manage FCC affairs till Oct 1, 1972, when the college was nationalized and its possession was handed over to the Punjab government.

However, following the issuance of notification regarding the return of the nationalized schools and colleges along with their existing assets to their respective previous managements and owners, a scrutiny committee handed over the FCC’s possession to principal Peter H. Armacoast who claimed to be the representative of the defunct Presbyterian Church, USA.

The LCCUC argued that being the previous owner of the FCC, it deserved the handing over of the college.