HYDERABAD, Aug 16: The Hyderabad circuit bench of the Sindh High Court (SHC) on Thursday appointed the court’s additional registrar as commissioner to look into the complaints of violations of its June 6 order, requiring builders not to overstep the approved building plan.

The bench comprising Justice Khilji Arif Hussain and Justice Mrs. Yasmin Abbasi directed the commissioner to submit a report within two weeks after visiting the site of a seven-storey under construction commercial plaza, Medina Blessings, on a public interest litigation filed by Mohammad Amjad.

The petitioner who himself is fighting his case said in the application written in Urdu that in total disregard of the court’s stay order issued on June 6 the builder continued to raise upper storey constructions with no provision for car parking in the revised plans.

He said that the Medina Blessings located on 25 to 30 feet road and the plots carrying city survey numbers 13, 14, 15 had been amalgamated to raise the building on them.

A public street was also located on the plot with city survey No-13, which was government land, said Mr Amjad and requested the court to order an inquiry into how a street could be registered in the name of a private person.

He said that the rules and regulations of Sindh Building Control Authority were equally applicable to all the constructions and requested the court to order inspection of the project and take action against the people who were found guilty of violation of its orders.

He had cited Arif Builders, HDA Director General Altaf Memon, Masood Jumani, former director of building control of HDA, Hameed Memon and director of building control as respondents.

He said that the project had on one side a 10 to 15 foot wide street and on the other side a of 25 to 30 foot street. It was adjacent to Police lines on the one hand and on the other three to four schools.

According to rules, the building should have been built after leaving a space of around eight foot from the sidewalk but the builder had used the sidewalk as well.

It is a seven storey building with basement, ground and mezzanine floors and residential flats with no space for parking, he said while referring to a report submitted by additional advocate general (AAG) of Sindh, Masood

A. Noorani, on the construction of some commercial plazas, including Medina Blessings.