SC to take up complaints against Bahria Town today
KARACHI: The Supreme Court on Friday put the Bahria Town, which is developing a housing scheme in Karachi, on notice for allegedly not paying the allotment charges to the state exchequer.
A three-member bench headed by Chief Justice of Pakistan Mian Saqib Nisar summoned Bahria Town officials to a hearing on Saturday (today) along with files or documents of at least five transfers of commercial plots which would be examined as case studies.
The bench in its order said: “It has come to our notice through various complaints that while Bahria Town (Pvt) Ltd charges the transferees of its housing scheme in Malir with the transfer and allotment fee/expense, it does not make onward payment to the state exchequer which it is obliged to do under the law.”
The order added: “Bahria Town is directed to appear with complete documentation and SOPs [standard operating procedures] pertaining to allotment and transfer of property, including information about the amount it charges from transferees of leasehold or freehold property at the time of original transfer/allotment and subsequent transfer and whether the amount charged is being paid to the state kitty or retained by Bahria Town.”
Published in Dawn, October 27th, 2018
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