KARACHI: The Supreme Court on Thursday came down hard on the provincial and local authorities over unauthorised allotment of land and lack of town planning in the metropolis.
A three-judge SC bench headed by Chief Justice Gulzar Ahmed slammed the Karachi commissioner, director general of the Sindh Building Control Authority and a senior member of the Sindh Revenue Board (SRB) as they failed to offer any explanation about the incorporation of land reserved for a road into a plot in the Sindhi Muslim Housing Society.
The visibly irked chief justice wondered under what law a mukhtiarkar could operate on the land of a housing society after a report of the mukhtiarkar was placed before the bench about leasing out the plot in question and a 15-storey building known as Nasla Tower built on it.
The Supreme Court on Thursday came down hard on the provincial and local authorities over unauthorised allotment of land and lack of town planning in the metropolis. ─ Photo by Aliraza Khatri/File
KARACHI: The Supreme Court on Thursday came down hard on the provincial and local authorities over unauthorised allotment of land and lack of town planning in the metropolis.
A three-judge SC bench headed by Chief Justice Gulzar Ahmed slammed the Karachi commissioner, director general of the Sindh Building Control Authority and a senior member of the Sindh Revenue Board (SRB) as they failed to offer any explanation about the incorporation of land reserved for a road into a plot in the Sindhi Muslim Housing Society.
KARACHI: The Supreme Court on Wednesday came down hard on Cantonment Board Clifton (CBC) authorities for leasing out its land to private persons to build high-rises and failing to remove encroachments and issued notice to the top law officer of the federal government.
A three-judge bench headed by Chief Justice of Pakistan Gulzar Ahmed and comprising Justice Sajjad Ali Shah and Justice Qazi Mohammad Amin Ahmed observed that the cantonment land could not be used to raise private buildings and there was categorization of such land, which needed to be examined.
It asked the attorney general to assist it.
The chief justice said that no progress had been made to comply with its earlier order to remove encroachments from the land owned by the federal authorities and rather more high-rise buildings were being constructed on such land.