Gulistan-e-Jauhar’s block-6: SHC orders ‘immediate’ division of plots
Allottees credit KDA of regulating loitering tactics. PHOTO: EXPRESS
KARACHI: After a unfortunate wait of around 4 decades, a allottees of Gulistan-e-Jauhar’s block-6, intrigue 35 might finally be means to start construction on their houses as a Sindh High Court (SHC) systematic on Tuesday a Karachi Development Authority (KDA) to immediately delimit a formerly encroached land.
SHC Chief Justice Sajjad Ali Shah, who was streamer a two-judge bench, upheld this sequence on a petition filed by 43 residents seeking dismissal of bootleg encroachments and possession of a residential plots legally allotted to them in 1976.
In 1979, a income house handed over a outrageous block of land in retard 6 to a KDA that was afterwards eliminated to people by balloting. In a balloting process, there were 402 plots of several categories, that enclosed plots from 420 block yards to 600 block yards, he informed.
On Sunday, a KDA hold a rite to give behind possession of a encroached land to a strange allottees and vowed to start a growth work ‘soon’.
The doubt of division arose during conference of an focus seeking disregard record opposite a KDA land director, who had told judges that possession of a plots was duly handed over to a petitioners, who refuted any such claim.
“You’re a open servant, so do not provide a people like minions,” pronounced a tip provincial decider while addressing a KDA official.
The petitioners private that they had purchased a plots opposite payments of Rs64,000 any by auction though were incompetent to build their houses as a ‘land mafia’ had assigned their plots.
The petitioners purported that while a probity had clearly systematic a authorities to get a encroachments removed, a same had not nonetheless been complied with in minute and spirit. In their corner petition, they had pleaded to a probity to sequence a authorities to collect their plots from land grabbers and palm over possession to them.
Previously, a probity had systematic a land executive to get a plots privileged of encroachments and a military high-ups to settle pickets to safeguard they do not reemerge.
On Tuesday, a arch probity inquired from a land executive as to because possession of a plots in doubt had not nonetheless been handed over to a petitioners -the genuine owners of a land.
The executive replied that a plots had been retrieved and their possession was handed over to a petitioners though they are not carrying out any construction themselves.
Refuting his claim, a petitioners forked out that they could not lift structures over a land as they had not been demarcated so far. They claimed that rubbish is being dumped on their plots, that are still in a clutches of land grabbers.
The petitioners purported that officials of a Karachi Metropolitan Corporation’s land dialect as good as a KDA were hand-in-glove with a land mafia, therefore, a allottees were not being handed over possession of their plots.
The arch probity serve celebrated that a petitioners had duly purchased a land in question, that was not given to them for free.
Taking critical notice of a state of affairs, a dais systematic a land executive to safeguard a land in doubt is demarcated before a finish of a day (yesterday) and contention a correspondence news in a court. It also called a news from a East DIG as to what is a belligerent existence per a possession and division issues.
However, compartment Tuesday evening, no news per a systematic division was filed by a land director.
Published in The Express Tribune, Oct 5th, 2016.
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