Lyari Expressway Case: City, residents to head back to court for rehearing

The case will go back to trial and both parties will state their cases again.

KARACHI:

The Sindh High Court rescinded an order given by a sessions court that seized the land in question and told the city to pay Rs60 million to the people uprooted to make way for the Lyari Expressway.

The case will go back to trial and both parties - the city and the residents - will state their cases again.

Iman Bux, one of the seven people relocated by the city for the project, filed a plea asking for an increase in compensation. In the suit, the people claimed that they had been paid Rs1,000 per square yard when the market price was Rs25,000 per square yard.

Their plea was granted and the city ordered to pay a collective sum of Rs60 million and ordered the land be seized by the court.

On Thursday, Justice Faisal Arab heard the city’s appeal filed by its lawyer, Manzoor Ahmed. He maintained that the plea never named the Sindh government, the project’s executing authority or the CDGK as respondents in the case. Keeping this in mind, Ahmed felt that the city’s land cannot be seized if they are not the ones being sued.

The judge decided that the case must be heard again, this time with the CDGK as one of the respondents, and be settled in two months.

Published in The Express Tribune, October 14^th, 2011.