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  • Jan 30th, 2010
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A division bench of High Court of Sindh (SHC) comprising of Justice Musheer Alam and Justice Aqeel ahmed Abbasi on Friday appointed a commissioner to inspect a plot of land, allegedly occupied by local government officials. The bench was hearing a constitution petition filed by Shakeel Ahmed Khan, an industrialist of Karachi who maintained that he owns two plots 36 and 37 in Sadat Co-operative Housing Society.

He said that society gave him possession and lease in 2005 and at that time also, officials of the concerned Union council used to sit there. The bench questioned the petitioner as to why did he take possession in such a situation with temporary encroachment and why a clear possession was not given by the society and why did he had taken the land, which was already encroached.

EDO Law of XDGK Manzoor Ahmed, while denying encroachment by the CDGK officials, said that when the land was owned by the society, how could it be encroached by the respondents including Naib Nazim, Shah Faisal Town, UC Nazim, Shah Faisal Town, Municipal Administration (Birth and Health department) and Assistant Executive Engineer (AEE) of KWSB. Why the petitioner waited for two decades to get his land freed from encroachment, he asked.

Earlier, the counsel for respondent UC Nazim submitted a layout plan to show that UC office was legally established on the plots. The bench asked the petitioner's counsel to show/identify his plot from the said layout plan. As the petitioner disputed the layout plan submitted by the counsel for the respondents, the bench while appointing a commissioner to inspect the disputed place and make a report, summoned Secretary of Saadat Co-operative Housing Society along with relevant record and layout plan, while putting off the hearing indefinitely.

Copyright Associated Press of Pakistan, 2010


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