The Supreme Court has declared the allotment of the 200-acre Gutter Baghicha land to the KMC Cooperative Society illegal and canceled it. At a hearing on Tuesday, a two-member bench headed by Chief Justice Gulzar Ahmed ruled that the approval given by the Sindh government, for the construction of the society, is illegal as well.
The Supreme Court of Pakistan came down on the Karachi Metropolitan Corporation Tuesday for illegally allotting amenity plots for commercial and residential purposes. The top court resumed hearing the Gutter Baghicha case at its Karachi Registry Monday. During the proceeding on December 28, NGO Shehri s Amber Ali Bhai told the court that over 1,000 acres of the Gutter Baghicha land was encroached upon for housing and industrial plants.
The Supreme Court, in a drastic turn of events on Monday, ordered the removal of Murtaza Wahab from the post of Karachi administrator. An angry Chief Justice Gulzar Ahmed said that the leader has terribly failed the people of the city. The top court resumed hearing the Gutter Baghicha case at its Karachi Registry on December 27. During the proceeding, Wahab and the top judge had a heated exchange. According to SAMAA TV s Irfanul Haque, the administrator misbehaved with the top judges when they expressed dissatisfaction over a report on the park presented by the Karachi Metropolitan Corporation. Justice Qazi Muhammad Amin remarked that all the amenity plots in the city are not .