Stop right there: KMC calm from sealing gas association office
KARACHI: The Sindh High Court has calm a Karachi Metropolitan Corporation (KMC) authorities from sealing a domicile of a Sui Southern Gas Company (SSGC) to redeem a defaulted volume of Rs150 million in metropolitan services taxation compartment Nov 15.
Headed by Justice Nadeem Akhtar, a two-judge dais also destined a KMC authorities to record a respond to a petition by that a gas application has challenged a powers of a KMC to redeem a metropolitan services charges.
The petitioner’s lawyer, Asim Iqbal, pronounced KMC had served a notice to a postulant claiming over Rs150 million as metropolitan use charges. He argued that a internal government, now defunct, was certified underneath a Sindh Local Government Ordinance, 2001 to levy and redeem such charges on a sustenance of opposite metropolitan services. However, that law has been abolished, though a KMC is perfectionist a charges though any authority.
The judges were serve sensitive that a Sindh Local Government Ordinance, 2013 was promulgated, though this law does not commission a internal supervision to levy and redeem metropolitan use charges. Therefore, such direct by a KMC is illegal, unapproved and though any official authority, he added.
Advocate Iqbal pronounced a KMC authorities had threatened to sign a conduct bureau of a postulant in box a sum being demanded by them is not paid. He pleaded to a justice to announce that KMC has no official management to explain metropolitan use charges. A ask was also done to curb them from sealing a SSGC office.
After conference initial arguments, a dais calm a KMC from sealing a SSGC conduct bureau compartment Nov 15. Meanwhile, it also released notice to a KMC’s law officer to record comments explaining a motive behind a metropolitan corporation’s direct to levy and redeem such charges on a subsequent date of hearing.
Published in The Express Tribune, Nov 3rd, 2016.
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