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KARACHI, July 6: The Central Stores Department demolished the shop of a tenant who had obtained a court order against her eviction on July 4. Petitioner Safia Bano informed a division bench comprising Justices Mushir Alam and Ali Sain Dino Metlo through advocates Sohail Hameed and Walid Ansari that the manager of the CSD Super Market, Abbasi Shaheed Road, refused to receive the July 4 order restraining the department from evicting her, subject to payment of monthly rent till the next date of hearing.
The petition had challenged a CSD notice for her eviction despite regular rent servicing and lump sum payment of Rs100,000 at the time of entering the property.
According to the petitioner, the CSD official also refused to receive Rs5,100 shop’s rent for June on July 5. Instead, he broke open the lock of her audio video shop and threw away her articles. The shop was later found razed. The petitioner moved two applications, including one for contempt proceedings against the CSD official concerned, and the bench issued notices in both to the CSD for July 16.
Inspection of factory
The Sindh High Court ordered inspection of a factory in the export processing zone on Friday to ascertain whether it was manufacturing goods meant for export.
The inspection was ordered on a suit instituted by a playing cards factory against the EPZ Authority, which had issued it a notice for vacating the plot allotted to it in the zone for not producing goods for foreign markets. Advocates Nadeem Qureshi and Yusuf Maulvi, counsel for the plaintiff, claimed that the factory was engaged in manufacturing in accordance with the law, rules and terms of the lease and the EPZ notice was unwarranted.
Justice Khilji Arif Hussain, who heard the suit, directed the court nazim to inspect the factory to ascertain whether it was making exportable items and submit a report on July 11. Status quo is to be maintained till that date and no goods or records would leave the factory premises till that date.
Petitions against Pemra Ord
Petitions against the amendments made to the Pakistan Electronic Media Regulatory Authority Ordinance were left over for paucity of time on Friday.
One petition has been moved by Sindh Bar Council members Salahuddin Gandapur and Mohammad Aqil through Advocate Mustafa Lakhani. Another petition was moved by Advocate Shahadat Awan on behalf of the People’s Lawyers Forum through Advocate Raza Rabbani.
The petitioners say that the new Pemra ordinance is repugnant to the freedoms of expression, profession and business guaranteed by the Constitution. It also suffers from excessive delegation of authority to the Pemra, which can now seal a television channel’s office and seize its equipment.
PIA issued notice
The Sindh High Court issued a notice to the Pakistan International Airlines on Friday for not promoting its officials disregarding a Supreme Court order passed 10 years ago.
Petitioner Ghulam Nabi Shah, station manager, Hyderabad, stated through Advocate Mohammad Nawaz Shaikh that he was removed from service along with others in the 1980s. They were ordered to be reinstated by the superior courts. Besides, the Supreme Court ordered in the late 1990s that they should be compensated for loss of seniority due to break in service and granted ‘one step promotion’.
While the order was complied with in respect of other petitioners, he was being discriminated against, he alleged.
A division bench issued notice for a date in office.
