The Sindh High Court (SHC) issued a notice to Karachi Metropolitan Corporation (KMC) administrator and deputy director land for flouting the court’s order that restrained them from dispossessing transporters of their plots at a new truck stand along Hawksbay Road.
A division bench headed by Justice Munib Akhtar heard the application seeking initiation of contempt of court proceedings against KMC administrator and deputy director land for disobeying the court order.
Applicant Muhammad Saleem and others submitted that on December 24, 2013 the division bench of the high court had barred the KMC officials from cancelling 99-year lease of plots allotted to them and other transporters and dispossessing them of their lands.
They told judges that despite the courts stay order, the KMC officials have ordered the cancellation of lease and its anti-encroachment force had demolished some structures built at the plots. Applicants said that they were lawful lease holders and have invested money in building the structures.
According to reports, the applicants said that the illegal action of KMC officials would cause financial loss to them and requested the court to restrain the authorities from taking any adverse action against them.