Law enforcers allegedly take over Siraj Ahmed’s plot in New Karachi after he recovered it from the land mafia. PHOTO: FILE/DFID
After successfully getting his land back from the land mafia, Siraj Ahmed’s 160-square-yard plot in New Karachi has allegedly been taken over by the law enforcers themselves.
Ahmed has gone to the Sindh High Court seeking removal of a post established after the plot was retrieved from the land mafia.
The petitioner, who claims to be a practicing lawyer, said he had purchased the residential plot No. 662/7 in Sector 11-G of New Karachi from the original owners through a sale deed agreed on February 9, 1972.
While he could not get the property transferred in his name from the Karachi Development Authority, his plot among many others in the neighbourhood was illegally taken over by some criminals.
In 2010, the Supreme Court, taking suo motu notice on the complaints filed by numerous plot owners in the locality, had ordered the then city government of Karachi to verify the authenticity of the allotments. The apex court also directed the government to protect public lands in New Karachi from being encroached.
The petitioner claimed that the city government verified his allotment of the plot. But later in October 2011, the New Karachi police set-up their check-post on the plot illegally and are not ready to vacate the place. Applications were sent to the police high-ups for the removal of the post but none was replied, Ahmed claimed.
In his petition, he appealed to the court to order the removal of the unauthorised police check-post from his plot. However, when the judges took up the matter on Wednesday, the petitioner was absent from the court. The court dismissed his petition for non-prosecution.
Published in The Express Tribune, January 3rd, 2013.
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