Petition against liquor shop in flat

Petition says wine shop was opened in the complex, adjacent to a mosque.

KARACHI: The Sindh excise and taxation secretary, the Sharae Faisal SPO and the Malir SHO were put on notice for December 21 by a division bench of the Sindh High Court on Tuesday.

A petition was filed by Syed Zeeshan Rizvi, a resident of a flat complex on Sharae Faisal, who maintained that a wine shop was opened in the complex, adjacent to a mosque. No public notice was given for seeking objection by the authorities and a private person is operating it, the petitioner’s lawyer Waqar Shah submitted. It became a continuous source of nuisance and the SHO should be directed to check the illegal activities there, he stated. The bench, comprising Chief Justice Sarmad Jalal Osmany and Justice Salman Hamid, stated that a licence was given to the owners. It then ordered pre-admission notices to the respondents for Dec 21.

Published in The Express Tribune, December 8th, 2010.