SHC orders removal of roadside encroachments from Dhoraji

The Sindh High Court has directed the Karachi Metropolitan Corporation to remove encroachments from along a road in Gulshan-e-Iqbal’s area of Dhoraji.

The direction came during a hearing of a petition against several cabins and a taxi and rickshaw stand illegally built on the road.

The petitioners submitted that due to the unauthorised rickshaw and taxi stand, the life of residents had become miserable and they had no space for free movement in the area. They said that some shopkeepers had installed cabins on the road, causing traffic jams and blocking free movement.

The court was informed by the traffic SSP that police had taken action against the rickshaw and taxi stand and seized 109 rickshaws for illegal parking. The court directed the KMC and the anti- encroachment cell to remove the encroachments to ensure free movement of traffic.

In another case, the Sindh High Court restrained the Karachi Metropolitan Corporation and others from taking any coercive action against a residential house along Gujjar nullah.

Javed Akhtar and other petitioners submitted that they were granted lease in Haji Murad Goth of Nazimabad by the chairman of katchi abadis and they constructed house for residential purpose. They submitted that the KMC authorities were taking action against encroachments along Gujjar nullah, but in the garb of an anti-encroachment drive they were also demolishing leased houses, including the house of the petitioner.

They sought an injunction against the demolition of their houses and requested the court to restrain the authorities from taking action. The court issued notices to the KMC, the director of the anti-encroachment and others and called their comments.

The court in the meantime restrained the authorities from taking any coercive action against the petitioners’ houses.

 

Detention cases

The Sindh High Court has issued notices to federal and provincial law officers and others on petitions against the detention of citizens allegedly by personnel of law enforcement agencies.

Petitioners Noorul Haq, Shabreen Mahar, Saba Danish submitted that police and other law enforcement agencies took into custody Ibrahim, Anwar Ali Mahar and Danish in Korangi Industrial Area, Safoora Goth and Nazimabad, and their whereabouts were unknown.

They submitted that police were neither disclosing the whereabouts of the detainees nor producing them before a court of law.

The court directed the federal and provincial law officers to file comments on the petitions and ascertain the whereabouts of the detainees.