Karachi
April 1, 2021
An anti-encroachment tribunal on Wednesday refrained the authorities from demolishing leased houses during the ongoing anti-encroachment drive along the Gujjar Nullah.
The tribunalâs presiding officer, Shakil Ahmed Abbasi, directed the provincial
local government secretary, Karachi administrator and commissioner, and Karachi Metropolitan Corporationâs directors for Katchi Abadis and anti-encroachment departments to maintain the status quo, and ordered them to file their reports till April 15.
Some 50 residents of Federal B Area, Tayyababad, Rehmanabad, Kausar Niazi Colony, Choona Depot, Liaquatabad, Wahid Colony, Qabail Colony, Peoples Colony and Arafat Town had filed two separate suits against the provincial and city administrations. They claimed to have possessed a 99-year lease of their plots by the KMC and the Sindh Katchi Abadis Department between 1994 and 2004.