The Civil Aviation Authority (CAA) on Sunday notified all its offices to stop the aviation regulatory authority lands from being used for commercial purposes, including wedding ceremonies.
The notification was issued in line with the order of the apex court prohibiting the authority to allow its lands to be used for commercial activities, stressing that they could only be used for aviation regulatory purposes alone.
According to the CAA spokesperson, the directive came into effect at the time of its issuance. The notification states that no weddings in the halls and marquees built on the lands will be held from now onwards.
The bookings for wedding ceremonies made in the past will be considered cancelled henceforth and marquee owners shall be given back their security deposits, the spokesperson confirmed.
Similarly, those who booked the place will be recompensed within 10 days.
Also read: SC orders closure of marriage halls on CAA land
The Supreme Court on Tuesday came down hard on the Civil Aviation Authority for running wedding halls on its land.
Hearing a case about CAA lands at the apex court’s Karachi registry, a bench headed by Chief Justice Gulzar Ahmed directed the country’s aviation regulator to end all the commercial activities other than airport-related services on its premises.
“It is not CAA’s job to run wedding halls,” the court remarked, instructing it to utilise the land for the purposes it was obtained for.
Justice Qazi Amin Ahmed, a member of the bench, questioned whether aviation regulators around the globe run marriage lawns.
“If that is the case, then open night clubs and casinos as well,” he berated the CAA.
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