KARACHI, Aug 31: The Sindh High Court dismissed on Thursday a Pakistan Railways appeal against allotment of its prime land to its employees through the Railways Co-operative Housing Society.

The land, situated near the Gilani railway station, was sought to be resumed by the PR as no allotment had been made to the co-op society and it could not lease it out to its members. The society and three of its members claimed that they were allotted residential plots in 1981. The claim was upheld by a single judge of the high court and the PR moved an intra-court appeal against the order.

A division bench, comprising Justices Anwar Zaheer Jamali and Syed Zawwar Hussain Jaffery, dismissed the appeal after hearing Advocates Saify Ali Khan and Arshad Iqbal for the respondent allottees and Advocate Chaudhry Rashid for the Railways.