KARACHI, Feb 27: The Sindh High Court directed the city district government on Tuesday to deposit the compensation due to 33 petitioners displaced by the Lyari Expressway Project with its nazir.

The petitioners submitted through Advocate Shaukat Ali Shaikh that they were not being paid compensation in accordance with the high court order of 2002.

Disposing of the applications moved by the petitioners, a division bench comprising Justices Mushir Alam and Yasmin Abbasy ordered that the amounts be deposited with the SHC nazir within seven days. If the petitioners have any grievance in respect of the quantum of compensation, resort may be made to a referee judge under the Land Acquisition Act.