In court: SHC orders arrest of builder for illegal project
The judges also directed that the name of the builder may also be put on the Exit Control List
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KARACHI:
The Sindh High Court (SHC) ordered on Wednesday the police authorities to arrest the builder involved in illegally building a residential project, Moon Garden, on the land belonging to the Pakistan Railways Cooperative Housing Society.
A division bench, headed by Justice Sajjad Ali Shah, directed them to produce the builder, Abdul Razak Khamosh, before the court on November 18.
These directives were issued on an appeal into a case involving controversy over the piece of land belonging to the Pakistan Railways in Gulistan-e-Jauhar.
Hearing the case on November 3, the bench had issued a show-cause notice to additional Karachi IG Mushtaq Maher to explain why contempt proceedings should not be initiated against him for non-compliance of the court’s September 29 order. Previously, the court had ordered him to get the residential project vacated within a month.
As neither the project was vacated nor was any report filed, the court had issued a show-cause notice to Maher, calling for an explanation as to why he may not be proceeded against for contempt of the court orders.
During Wednesday’s proceedings, Mahar appeared before the court in response to the show-cause notice. The police chief filed his written explanation, informing the court that there are 100 flats in the Moon Garden project, of whom many have already been vacated. He said the few remaining will also be vacated soon.
The judges ordered the police chief to ensure that the remaining flats are also vacated at the earliest and directed that the provision of utilities also be suspended to the illegal project.
The bench ordered him to ensure that the builder, Khamosh, who had launched this project illegally, should be arrested and produced before the court. On hearing this, the judges further directed that the name of the builder may also be put on the Exit Control List in order to stop him from fleeing the country.
Published in The Express Tribune, November 12th, 2015.
The Sindh High Court (SHC) ordered on Wednesday the police authorities to arrest the builder involved in illegally building a residential project, Moon Garden, on the land belonging to the Pakistan Railways Cooperative Housing Society.
A division bench, headed by Justice Sajjad Ali Shah, directed them to produce the builder, Abdul Razak Khamosh, before the court on November 18.
These directives were issued on an appeal into a case involving controversy over the piece of land belonging to the Pakistan Railways in Gulistan-e-Jauhar.
Hearing the case on November 3, the bench had issued a show-cause notice to additional Karachi IG Mushtaq Maher to explain why contempt proceedings should not be initiated against him for non-compliance of the court’s September 29 order. Previously, the court had ordered him to get the residential project vacated within a month.
As neither the project was vacated nor was any report filed, the court had issued a show-cause notice to Maher, calling for an explanation as to why he may not be proceeded against for contempt of the court orders.
During Wednesday’s proceedings, Mahar appeared before the court in response to the show-cause notice. The police chief filed his written explanation, informing the court that there are 100 flats in the Moon Garden project, of whom many have already been vacated. He said the few remaining will also be vacated soon.
The judges ordered the police chief to ensure that the remaining flats are also vacated at the earliest and directed that the provision of utilities also be suspended to the illegal project.
The bench ordered him to ensure that the builder, Khamosh, who had launched this project illegally, should be arrested and produced before the court. On hearing this, the judges further directed that the name of the builder may also be put on the Exit Control List in order to stop him from fleeing the country.
Published in The Express Tribune, November 12th, 2015.