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THATTA, Oct 24: A division bench of the Sindh High Court has issued bailable warrants against the district Nazim, the district co-ordination officer (DCO) and Sujawal’s taluka police officer (TPO) for not complying with court orders.
The warrants were issued after Nazim Shafqat Hussain Shirazi, DCO Mehmood Ahmed Khan and the TPO of Sujawal, Aslam Behrani, did not appear in the court despite repeated court orders in a petition filed by Mohammad Aachar, a resident of Shah Yaqiq town.
The bench, comprising Justice Shabbir Ahmed and Justice Mohammad Sadiq Laghari, issued the warrants as .
The petitioner, making all of them party to the affairs, had complained that they had dismantled a shopping centre owned by him, adjacent to the Dargah Shah Yaqiq, thereby rendering him irreparable losses.
The court has directed all of them to furnish sureties amounting Rs5,000 each and appear on Oct 30.
LINE LOSSES: Hesco is trying to cut down power line losses, which recently surged to 63 per cent in Thatta district because of power theft, a Hesco official said here on Thursday.
The SDO, Imran Shaikh, said that Hesco was adopting fool- proof measures to discourage the ‘kunda system,’ like introduction of a package for regularising such connections in four easy instalments.
He said that the public and private sector owed Rs80 million to Hesco and the power utility would launch a recovery campaign within this week.
He said that 50 percent exemption could be extended to defaulters, who had been unable to clear their dues since the past 10 years and who did not intend to get his connection restored.
The Hesco official said that the executive engineer, Kotri, Mohammad Moosa Mirbahar, would hold an open kutchehry in th Thatta press club on Oct 28 to redress the consumers’ grievances.
