The Sindh government set up a judicial commission to ascertain and report facts relating to the public land allotted and leased by the Sindh Board of Revenue (SBR) since December 27, 2007 when the PPP Chairperson Benazir Bhutto was assassinated in Rawalpindi.
The Sindh Home Department formed a one-member inquiry commission and appointed Justice (r) Zahid Kurban Alavi as its member to probe and furnish a detailed report within the next 30 days.
The commission would scrutinise entries in the record of Form II and Form VII and the measures taken by the board to computerise such entries.
Also, the reconstruction of the record of rights of the Dehs record which was burnt in the post-Dec 27 violence when Benazir was killed would be scrutinised. Pursuant to the November 26, 2012 order of the Supreme Court regarding the verification of steps taken to secure the original record kept with the concerned Assistant Commissioner/Assistant Collector, the commission will inspect whether the entries were corrected and attested by the concerned assistant commissioner. The commission would also probe the verification of the registration of villages and whether these had been printed from the security printing press and supplied to the concerned Mukhtiarkar; and whether proper record of each register has been kept in provincial record cells established in the headquarters of the Board of Revenue Sindh in Hyderabad.
