MY family and friends bought several plots in Pakistan Post Office Employees Co-operative Housing Society in 2004 in sector 25-A of scheme 33. This investment was done through meagre resources.

Since 2013, prices of plots were coming down owing to illegal occupation by landgrabbers while the area had become no-go. Although we hold original files of the society plots, the market news is that a land mafia in collusion with property dealers created bogus files and many plots were illegally resold.

In another astonishing revelation, a land mafia group grabbed hundreds of plots and schemed to fleece original owners by selling a huge number.

I request chief justice of the Sindh High Court and the director-general of Sindh Rangers to take cognisance of this matter and get the area rid of landgrabbers, order strict investigation to apprehend culprits and allow/initiate developmental works in sector 25-A so people could start building houses or be able to sell their plots.

No matter how connected the landgrabbers and conspirators are, they should be taken to task.

Name withheld on request

Karachi

Published in Dawn, May 24th, 2018