Industrial Estate: Hyderabad’s land grabbers use stay orders as shelter

KARACHI:

Minister for Industries Rauf Siddiqui informed the Sindh Assembly on Monday that the land mafia is using a court’s “stay order” as a shield to continue taking over government land and properties.

During the question-answer session, he said that more than 300 acres in the industrial estate of Hyderabad was still under the control of land grabbers. “The stay order given to them by a court expired in 1991, but they are not withdrawing,” he added.

To a question, the minister said that around 70 per cent of plots allotted to people for industries are lying idle as they don’t want to set up the factories and are using the land for other purposes. “We have started cancelling the allotment orders,” he said.

Published in The Express Tribune, May 9^th, 2012.