An affectee of Gujjar Nullah’s anti-encroachment drive appeared before the Federal Investigation Agency’s (FIA) Cyber Crime Reporting Centre (CCRC) and lodged a complained against two officers of KMC Anti-Encroachment Department who demanded sexual favour in return for saving her house from being demolished. The complainant, a resident of Rehmanabad Block-V, told the agency that her house was being demolished during KMC anti-encroachment drive. She said that the KMC officers told her that they can save her house if she pays them Rs25,000. The complainant told that she borrowed the money and hand it over to KMC officers Qazi Arif and Masror Ali. She said that Qazi told her that.
Neither was Muttahida Qaumi Movement-Pakistan’s Wasim Akhtar, the last elected mayor of Karachi, nor will Pakistan Peoples Party’s Barrister Murtaza Wahab, the newly appointed chief of.
Continue removing encroachments along Karachi nullahs, Supreme Court tells authorities
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The Supreme Court has asked the authorities to continue the anti-encroachment drive along stormwater drains in Karachi.
The court heard on Monday a petition filed by the Karachi Metropolitan Corporation about the demolition of leased houses along the Gujjar nullah.
The bench was headed by Chief Justice Gulzar Ahmed.
The KMC is removing encroachments in coordination with the National Disaster Management Authority, the KMC attorney informed the court.
Apex court dismisses residents plea against the anti-encroachment drive and request for compensation
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KARACHI:
The Supreme Court (SC) on Monday ordered authorities to restart work to widen Gujjar Nullahs and the Orangi Nullahs stormwater drains and dismissed the area residents plea against the anti-encroachment drive and request for compensation.
A three-member bench of the apex court, led by the Chief Justice of Pakistan Gulzar Ahmed, heard the cases pertaining to illegal encroachments in the port city and the Karachi Circular Railway at the SC s Karachi Registry.
As the affectees of the Gujjar and Orangi Nullahs anti-encroachment operation protested outside the court premises and demanded a house for a house , the apex court annulled all restraining orders against the anti-encroachment drive.
Karachi
April 22, 2021
The provincial advocate general has told the Sindh High Court (SHC) that the provincial government has proposed building a 30-foot-wide road along the Gujjar and Orangi storm water drains in order to ensure that no further construction takes place on the right of way and that accessibility is improved.
Filing a statement on lawsuits with regard to the demolition of houses at Gujjar and Orangi nullahs, the AG submitted that the drains were natural drains and the right of way in respect of each was originally designated in pre-Partition times between 40 and 210 feet on either sides of the Gujjar drain and 20 to 300 feet on either side of the Orangi drain.