SHC seeks reply on houses’ evacuation case

Order was issued by SHC while hearing petition filed by government employees against evacuation of their houses

KARACHI: The Sindh High Court (SHC) directed on Saturday the advocate-general of Sindh and others to submit a reply by October 6 in the government houses evacuation case.

The order was issued by the court while hearing a petition filed by government employees against evacuation of their houses. The court issued a notice to the chief secretary and other relevant officials.



The applicants said that they are government employees and have been living in government houses for 25 years. They said that the Sindh government had ordered forcible evacuation of 285 houses. The houses to be snatched from us will be given to Sindh Secretariat employees, they said.

They said they were not encroachers as they were regularly paying rent from salaries.

They appealed to the court to restrain the Sindh government from evacuating their houses.

Published in The Express Tribune, September 23^rd, 2018.