ISLAMABAD, May 15: The Capital Development Authority (CDA) on Tuesday filed an appeal with the Islamabad High Court (IHC) to save a plot allotted to its former chairman and to set aside the court orders for processing the case of another official for allotment of a plot.

Mohammad Ramzan Chaudhry, the legal adviser of the civic agency, in the intra-court appeal against the ruling of Justice Shaukat Aziz Siddiqui adopted before a two-member bench of Justice Riaz Ahmed Khan and Justice Azim Khan Afridi that Justice Siddiqui in the petition of a CDA deputy director, who was an NRO (National Reconciliation Ordinance) beneficiary, not only decided the matter in his favour but also made some observations which were against the interests of other CDA officials.

In the petition of CDA deputy director Syed Manzoor Hussain Shah, Justice Siddiqui had observed that the allotment of a plot to former CDA chairman Imtiaz Inayat Elahi was against the law. He had said that on April 29, 2011, the IHC had restrained the civic agency from allotting plots to all its employees but in December 2011 Mr Elahi was allotted the plot when the restraining order was still intact.

Justice Siddiqui had also directed the CDA to process the case of the petitioner in its board meeting.

The CDA counsel said the petitioner was involved in three NAB references and had been suspended and subsequently dismissed from service on April 11, 2005. However, he was reinstated on January 15, 2009, when the NAB references were terminated against him after implantation of the NRO.

Later, when the Supreme Court declared NRO void ab initio, the reference against him was restored and he was arrested again, he added. Mr Shah was released on bail and then reinstated again on his previous post.

The counsel requested the division bench to set aside the orders of the single bench.