HYDERABAD, Sept 2: The Hyderabad circuit bench of the Sindh High Court has admitted an application filed by two citizens against installation of mobile phone towers in densely populated areas and directed the court office to attach the application with an identical case on the same issue.

The applicants, Mohammad Haneef and Abdul Rasheed cited two private persons, Faheem and Ayub and M/S Paktel Telecommunications as respondents.

They termed mobile phone towers as “towers of death” and said that according to newspapers the towers were a source of spread of radioactive waves which could cause cancer among people living below them.

They said that a tower was being erected atop a three-storey building owned by private respondents adjacent to their houses in Liaquat Colony. In case it fell it would completely destroy their houses, they said.

They said that they had requested the company to change its location and also approached nazim of their area but they did not take their pleas seriously and work on the tower’s installation reached completion.

They prayed the court to provide them and their families protection and direct the respondents to install the tower at some place away from the populated area.

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