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KARACHI, Dec 13: The Sindh High Court issued notices to provincial governor Mohammedmian Soomro and other defendants on an application moved in a pending property dispute.
Applicants Sarwatunnisa and Sara Soomro maintained, through Advocate Bashir Ahmed Chaudhry, that being a wife and a daughter, respectively, of the late Ahmed Mian Soomro, they were accepted as his legal heirs by his son from his first wife, Mohammedmian Soomro, and given some share in his property.
The share was much less than their legitimate inheritance and they filed a suit in the Sindh High Court for securing their due share. In his rejoinder to their plaint, Mohammedmian Soomro denied their status as co-sharers. They requested the court to appoint a commissioner for recording evidence in respect of their status as inheritors.
Justice Zahid Kurban Alavi, who is seized of the suit, ordered that a notice on the application be issued to all the defendants to enable them to contest it if they so desired.
SUGAR MILL CASE: A division bench of the Sindh High Court dismissed another appeal against the auction of Kiran Sugar Mill, Sukkur, while a Supreme Court bench adjourned the hearing of owner Islamuddin Sheikh’s appeal against the dismissal of his plea by the SHC bench and extended its stay against the mill’s transfer till Dec 17.
Dismissing unsuccessful bidder M/s Chawla International’s appeal, the SHC bench, comprising Justice Sabihuddin Ahmed and Justice Amir Hani Muslim, observed that the appellant, who offered to match the successful bid of Rs460 million by M/s Euro-Plus, could not make out a case for court intervention between the acceptance of offer and its confirmation. It, however, observed that the matter might be considered by the single judge who ordered auction when the bid came up before him for confirmation.
As for the appellant’s contention that the successful bidder had failed to pay the price, the bench noted that, according to the official assignee, M/s Euro-Plus had paid 25 per cent of the price in accordance with the terms of the auction after acceptance of their offer. The balance could not be paid due to the stay order passed by it in appeal.
REJECTED: The Sindh High Court dismissed with cost a writ petition seeking a ban on publicity of sex clinics, “spiritual healers” and quacks.
Petitioner Haji Gul Ahmad had sought directions to the city government and other authorities concerned to remove hoardings publicizing sex clinics healers promising “magic cures” and ban their advertisements in the press.
A division bench observed that the petition was intended to waste court time and merited dismissal along with the plea for an interim order with a cost amounting to Rs10,000 to be paid by the petitioner.
