A division bench, headed by Justice Aqeel Ahmed Abbasi, also directed the relevant DIG and Malir deputy commissioner to provide necessary assistance to the SHC Nazir [official], who has been appointed as commissioner, for the inspection.
These directions were written on a petition by civil rights campaigner Rana Faizul Hassan, against rampant land grabbing along with the help of Malir police senior superintendent.
The petitioner took police, properties trusts and others to court over their ‘failure’ to protect vast lands from land grabbers.
In his plea, Hasan claimed that the mud mounds located between Sikandar Goth and Gulzar-e-Hijri on Super Highway are being eliminated to encroach upon prime lands in Scheme-33 of Malir district.
He also claimed that the culprits had prepared fake documents with the help of influential personalities to secure allotments and then sell the land at throwaway prices.
A group said to be headed by a notorious land grabber, Ismail, is actively getting the status of such land changed to commercial under false claims of setting up inter-city bus stands in the locality, he claimed.
“The plots measuring 500 square-yards each are being sold at Rs5 million and 120-square-yard plots for Rs115,000,” he pointed out. He blamed the local police of patronising two to three groups of land mafia.
