Owners of Nasla tower file review plea in SC
June 29, 2021
KARACHI: The owner of Nasla Tower has filed a review application before the Supreme Court against its orders for demolition of the entire building and pleaded the property to be regularized in the interest of third party owners.
The Supreme Court on June 16 had ordered the commissioner Karachi to remove all residents of the Nasla Tower situated in the Sindhi Muslim Cooperative Housing Society after taking possession of the building constructed on 341 square yards encroached land and complete its demolition as expeditiously as possible. The court had observed that there was no denial of the fact that on account of unilateral increase in the area not supported by any legally acceptable instrument, a service road has been encroached upon and the tower exists on area in excess of what was originally leased. The court observed that being an illegal construction, there was no provision for compounding such illegality, especially where a service road was blocked and the tower was liable to be demolished.