KARACHI: Karachi police and Anti-Encroachment Cell (AEC) on Thursday carried out an operation against illegal encroachments from Landi Kotal Chowrangi to Five-Star Chowrangi area.
According to reports, numerous people and traders who protested against the operation were taken into custody.
Earlier, the apex court had directed the Karachi Development Authority (KDA) director general and chairman of city’s district municipal corporations to get 35,000 encroached plots vacated in their respective jurisdictions within two months.
The apex court bench, comprising Justice Gulzar Ahmed and Maqbool Baqer, would conduct the hearing of a constitutional petition of Naimatullah Khan, the former city Nazim, and an application of a woman seeking contempt of court proceedings against authorities concerned for allotting her plot to another party in violation of the court order.
KDA had informed the court that 35,000 plots of the city had been encroached upon through notorious China-cutting method. It said that the land worth billions of rupees had been allotted for illegal construction in different parts of the metropolis.