Irrigation rest house : CM given last chance to sign transfer documents
The property is considered ideal for a ‘judge’s lodge’.
KARACHI:
A court has given the Board of Revenue’s land utilisation department one last chance to have the chief minister approve the transfer of land ownership for a rest house.
The order was given by Sindh High Court (SHC) Chief Justice Mushir Alam and Justice Syed Hasan Azhar Rizvi on Tuesday. The Irrigation Rest House, spread over three acres, is located in front of the SHC Larkana circuit bench and is considered to be an ideal location for a ‘judges’ lodge’ in terms of security and privacy.
The rest house is already in the possession of the SHC but the transfer of ownership from the Sindh Irrigation Department has been in limbo for the past 10 years.
The Board of Revenue sought an adjournment on Tuesday when the reference - sent by the SHC registrar and converted into a petition - came up for hearing. The board’s lawyer said that the land utilisation department is pursuing the case to speed up the decision. The chief minister’s secretary has also been reminded several times but no action has been taken yet, he said.
Allowing the adjournment request, the bench granted the department three weeks as a last and final chance. However, the bench made it conditional that, “if the Sindh chief minister does not find time to examine the summary or no orders are passed by him thereon within a further period of three weeks, such summary shall be considered to have been approved without any reservation as proposed by the authority concerned”. After three weeks, the land utilisation department shall mutate the property, the bench ordered.
Published in The Express Tribune, May 4th, 2011.
A court has given the Board of Revenue’s land utilisation department one last chance to have the chief minister approve the transfer of land ownership for a rest house.
The order was given by Sindh High Court (SHC) Chief Justice Mushir Alam and Justice Syed Hasan Azhar Rizvi on Tuesday. The Irrigation Rest House, spread over three acres, is located in front of the SHC Larkana circuit bench and is considered to be an ideal location for a ‘judges’ lodge’ in terms of security and privacy.
The rest house is already in the possession of the SHC but the transfer of ownership from the Sindh Irrigation Department has been in limbo for the past 10 years.
The Board of Revenue sought an adjournment on Tuesday when the reference - sent by the SHC registrar and converted into a petition - came up for hearing. The board’s lawyer said that the land utilisation department is pursuing the case to speed up the decision. The chief minister’s secretary has also been reminded several times but no action has been taken yet, he said.
Allowing the adjournment request, the bench granted the department three weeks as a last and final chance. However, the bench made it conditional that, “if the Sindh chief minister does not find time to examine the summary or no orders are passed by him thereon within a further period of three weeks, such summary shall be considered to have been approved without any reservation as proposed by the authority concerned”. After three weeks, the land utilisation department shall mutate the property, the bench ordered.
Published in The Express Tribune, May 4th, 2011.