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KARACHI, Aug 17: Justice Nadeem Azhar Siddiqui of the Sindh High Court on Friday restrained a school allegedly situated in a residential block of North Nazimabad from admitting students and appointed a commissioner for inspecting the site.
In his order on an application in a suit instituted by the resident of an adjoining plot, the judge said the defendant school should not admit or transfer any student to its branch allegedly being set up in a bungalow on plot number E/107, Block ‘F’, North Nazimabad, till Sept 4, the next date of hearing.
Advocate Salman Hamid was appointed commissioner to ascertain whether the school had already started functioning. The commissioner shall have full access to the premises and the relevant record. He shall submit his report by the next date, the order said.
The plaintiff submitted through his counsel, Raafia Murtaza, that the residential plot could not be converted into commercial premises and the school would be a public and private nuisance.
Justice Mushir Alam barred the forward trading of Allied Bank shares without the buyer being informed of the pendency of a suit against the sale of a big chunk of ABL shares at below the market price.
Dr M. Farogh Nasim contended on behalf of plaintiff Mohammad Salim, director, Fateh Textile Mills, and others that the federal government had sold a large number of its shares to Ibrahim Group. Neither there was any public notice nor were the provisions of the Privatisation Ordinance followed. In what he described as ‘the worst case of corporate hijacking’, the lawyer alleged that the shares were sold for Rs40 to 42 per strip against their market value of over Rs70 per piece.
A division bench consisting of Chief Justice Sabihuddin Ahmed and Justice Faisal Arab suspended the demotion order of Syed Furqan Ahmad, a grade 17 employee of the provincial agriculture department.
He submitted through Advocate M. Nawaz Shaikh that that he moved a petition against the department’s failure to promote him to grade 18. A notice was issued to agricultural secretary Mohkam Din Qadri, who reopened a case against him and demoted him to grade 16. The bench took a serious view of the matter and asked the secretary to file a personal affidavit by Sept 5, the next date of hearing.
A division bench of the Sindh High Court issued a notice to the chairman of the National Accountability Bureau and others on a pre-arrest bail plea by an accused facing corruption charges in PIA aircraft scam case, APP adds.
The applicant Darayus Cyrus (Happy) Minwala, a former employee of an airline, submitted that a reference was made by the NAB chairman in June 2007 against him and two others including the former director of PIA Corporate Planning, Rashid Hassan, and a private beneficiary, Pervaiz Hussain.
According to the NAB reference, the accused caused a huge loss to the national exchequer in dubious deals of six worn-out aircrafts with an international airline.
The applicant submitted that he had been living in Dubai for the last many years and had been receiving information about the NAB’s case and issuance of non-bailable warrants against him in the case. He arrived in Pakistan on Aug 14 to move the high court for a pre-arrest bail.
He submitted that on his arrival, the NAB authorities arrested him at Karachi Airport on Aug 14 and the following day produced him before an accountability court which remanded him in judicial custody.
The applicant prayed for enlargement of bail in the pending NAB reference and quashing of the NAB case.
The bench comprising Justice Mohammad Afzal Soomro and Justice Rehmat Hussain Jaffery, after hearing the arguments, issued the notice to the NAB chairman and other respondents and put off the proceedings till August 21.
