LAHORE, Nov 17: A Supreme Court full bench on Monday observed the matter pertaining to the high-rises should be brought to its logical end as it was causing a lot of trouble to the workers.

“Thousands of workers have lost their jobs because of a break in the construction work,” the bench, headed by Justice Fakir Mohammad Khokar observed.

The bench summoned the Punjab advocate general, High Rise Building Commission chairman and legal adviser to the Lahore Development Authority for the next date of hearing --Nov 19.

The bench also directed the LDA legal adviser to examine 150 cases of high-rises, which, according to the commission, were not being constructed in accordance with the rules and regulations. The bench also dismissed an appeal by the LDA against regularising the construction of shops in the Siddique Trade Centre.

The bench had allowed the Siddique Trade Centre to resume as per rules and regulations construction of shops subject to payment Rs2.5 million as fine. Ameer Alam Khan advocate, representing the owner of Ahad Towers, said the commission had been discriminating against his clients.

He said the commission was giving his client a cold shoulder while turning a blind eye to the construction of a plaza being built by Punjab Governor Salmaan Taseer in Gulberg.