File photo of the Sindh High Court. PHOTO: FILE
The court has stopped Shah Faisal town administration from setting up commercial cabins on a footpath, which is not designated for commercial use.
This restraining order came on a petition moved by 22 residents of alFalah Cooperative Housing Society, located in Shah Faisal Town. The residents cited the local government secretary, the Karachi administrator, the town’s executive engineer, Sindh police chief, the Karachi Electric Supply Company and others as respondents.
Muhammad Imran, one of the aggrieved residents, blamed that the city administrator and the executive engineer for allowing the installation of 160 cabins on rainwater drains and sewerage passages from Bombay Nimco to Bismillah Hotel in Block 1.
“The officials have rented out the spaces used as footpaths and violated the right of free movement of the citizens,” the petitioners argued. They claimed that these cabins were causing traffic jams.
“On the one hand, street crimes have also shot up in the area and power thefts have also gone up because all the cabins are using illegal ‘kundas’,” claimed a resident.
They pleaded the court declare the installation of these cabins illegal and order the local government to remove them. After the initial hearing on Thursday, the judges issued notices to the respondents to file their comments.
Justice Maqbool Baqir, while heading the bench, ordered that executive engineer to make sure that no cabins are installed on footpaths until the next hearing.
Published in The Express Tribune, March 16th, 2013.
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