KARACHI, Nov 4: The Sindh government asked the claimants to the former Indian high commission building in Karachi to produce their original title deeds and the Sindh High Court judge hearing a suit involving the property adjourned further hearing to Nov 7.

The government notices to plaintiff Syed Ali Baqar Naqvi, who claims to have purchased the property, 3,883-square-yard plot number 63,63/1, Old Clifton, and defendant Karim Hussain Jiva, who sold it to him and supports his claim, follows a property registrar’s report that the documents submitted by them do not tally with the official record. The notices have been issued under the civil procedure code by Advocate-General Anwar Mansoor Khan.

The AG also moved three applications, which will be heard on Nov 7. Advocates Raja Qureshi and Suleiman Habibullah, counsel for the plaintiff and the defendant vendor, reiterated their assertion that the relevant official record in respect of the property was being deliberately withheld and was not missing.

The official who was said to have disappeared with the record had also not been proceeded against. It was not a coincidence that only the record pertaining to a particular property and relating to a particular period was not available.

Meanwhile, provincial home secretary S. Anwar Haider filed another counter-affidavit to rebut the averments made by Karim H. Jiva, managing director of M/s Elite Builders, in his affidavit. The secretary categorically denied the affidavit in its entirety. He said the deponent defendant was in collusion with the plaintiff. The property belonged to the Indian government and the documents submitted by the plaintiff and the builder were fabricated.

Adjourning the proceedings, Justice Ataur Rahman extended his order for the maintenance of the status quo till the next date.