Contempt of court: CDA told to give allotment letter to Sector D-13 land owner
In response to a contempt application against the Capital Development Authority (CDA), the Islamabad High Court (IHC) on Thursday ordered the civic body to submit an allotment letter to a land owner affected by Sector D-13.
IHC Chief Justice Iqbal Hameedur Rehman ordered the civic body to submit allotment letter to Syed Asad Kazmi, the affected land owner who had filed the contempt application.
Kazmi maintained that IHC Justice Noorul Haq Qureshi had directed CDA in July this year to give him an allotment letter within three months for the land he had provided in Sector D-13. He requested the court to start criminal proceeding against CDA officials for violating the court order.
He said that CDA had acquired over 200 kanals in Sector D-13 back in 2008, and following the land-sharing formula, it promised to give allotment letters to 29 land owners.
CJ Rehman expressed concern over CDA officials violating the court order and summoned the civic body’s chairman Syed Tahir Shahbaz, member estate Shaista Suhail ,and member Planning Syed Mustafain Kazmi in court within one hour.
When the CDA officials arrived, they informed the court that the civic body has not started planning for D-13. The CDA chairman said even the layout plan of the sector has not been finalised and only provisional letters were given to some of the affected land owners without allotting them plot numbers.
The petitioner’s counsel, however, claimed that the civic body has allotted letters only to ‘influential people’. He said that on the last hearing, the then DG planning Ghulam Sarwar Sandhu had told the court that the layout plan of the sector will be completed in three month and assured of full cooperation.
The CJ observed that the court will have to intervene if institutions fail to perform their role and directed the civic body to provide allotment letter to the petitioner by Friday (today).
Published in The Express Tribune, December 21st, 2012.
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