HYDERABAD, Nov 16: The deputy administrator of the Evacuee Trust Property, Hyderabad, Mr Abdul Qadeer, said on Wednesday that the Ladies Club was the property of the ETP and at present no builder had got anything to do with it because M/S Shelter Housing and Construction Company had not fulfilled the condition of depositing Rs1.5 million non-refundable security to the ETP Board.

The deputy administrator, in a communication to Hyderabad DPO sought registration of an FIR against people who had broken the seal of the Ladies Club on Tuesday and called for police assistance for sealing the premises again.

He said that the ETP was the sole owner of the property and the tenancy of the Ladies Club had been cancelled for violation of an agreement and using the premises for commercial gains.

Talking to this correspondent here on Wednesday, he said that under section 18(c) of the Scheme for Management and Disposal of Urban Properties 1977, the ETP board could ask any builder or developer to develop its premises under a lease agreement.

He said that according to his information an agreement was signed between the ETP board and M/S Shelter Housing and Construction Company but at present no such agreement existed because the builders had failed to deposit a non-refundable amount of Rs1.5 million as security.

According to him, the Ladies Club office-bearers had been running a middle school on commercial basis while the club was also being used regularly as a marriage hall and these were violations which forced the department to cancel its tenancy.

He said that the premises were rented out for welfare work and social and cultural activities but the situation was on the contrary adding that if ETP was not getting rent (Rs3,156) from club’s office-bearers since 2001 then they could have deposited it in a court of law which was not done.

The official said that several notices were issued to the club’s body and finally the tenancy agreement was cancelled on October 17, 2005 under section 25 of the Evacuee Trust Property Board Act XIII of 1975.

He said that if it was not property of the ETP as per claim of the club’s office-bearers then why did they sign an agreement with it and paid the rent earlier. He said that the M/S Shelter Housing and Construction Company had signed an agreement with the ETP Board for construction of a complex but since it failed to deposit the non-refundable security deposit with the Board due to litigation it did not materialize. “The ETP is the sole owner of ladies club”, he insisted.

LOOTED: A group of people have looted Rs450,000 from the clerk of a flour mill on Monday night in the jurisdiction of Gulshan-e-Hali police station.

Police registered the case vide crime No. 64/05 on the complaint of Ayaz who accused six unidentified persons of depriving him of Rs450,000 at gunpoint.

A police source claimed that flour mill administration was not cooperating with police because it was not the case of robbery alone.

He said that some miscreants had demanded protection money from the factory owner which he did not pay and added that Rs450,000 had not been robbed because an amount of Rs1.6 million had already been deposited in a bank branch earlier in the day and there was hardly Rs100,000 that had been looted.

KILLED: A three-year-old boy, Awais, son of Mohammad Ayaz, was killed while 20-others injured near Lunikot in a road accident on the Super Highway on Tuesday.

A Kohat-bound bus (C-1152) collided with a trailer, causing death of Awais and injuries to Ayaz, Iqbal, Samiullah, Jahan Khatoon, Taj Bibi, Bilquees and Maleeha.

The injured were taken to the Liaquat University Hospital.