Non-conforming use: SC seeks compliance report from civic agency

Summons inspectors-general of Islamabad, motorways police

ISLAMABAD: The Supreme Court has summoned both inspectors-general (IGs) of the capital and the motorways police for not vacating their offices from residential areas of the capital.

A two-judge bench of the apex court, headed by Justice Iqbal Hameedur Rehman on Wednesday took up the matter related to non-conforming use of residential houses.

The bench also asked the Capital Development Authority (CDA) to submit compliance report within 15 days.

Earlier, CDA Counsel Shahid Hamid informed the bench that the two IGs had sought a year’s time for vacating their offices.

In response to a letter written by the civic agency’s chairperson to the top cops, they had sought a year’s time to relocate their offices to the new building that is currently under construction in G-11/4.

During the hearing, the counsel requested the bench to give more time for the compliance of its order about the non-conforming use of residential houses. The CDA counsel claimed that so far they had sealed 123 premises for non-conforming use.

Published in The Express Tribune, February 11^th, 2016.