The Sindh High Court (SHC) on Tuesday directed police to establish pickets in Gulistan-e-Johar area of Karachi to avoid land encroachments.
The SHC bench, headed by Chief Justice Sajjad Ali Shah, was hearing the petition filed by Talat Aijaz and 42 other residents of Gulistan-e-Johar, Block 6, Scheme 33, who moved the court requesting recovery of their grabbed land.
On Tuesday’s hearing, the counsel of Karachi Metropolitan Corporation (KMC) submitted a compliance report of the court’s earlier direction to remove the encroachments. The report stated that encroachments were removed in a drive conducted under the supervision of senior director anti-encroachment cell. The possession of the land had been given to the allottees but there was still need to deploy contingents to remove the remaining encroachments.
The SSP East submitted that the police would comply with all the directives issued by the court. The court directed the police to establish pickets in the area to avoid re-emergence of encroachments.
Earlier, the SHC had directed the KMC to remove the encroachments and submit a compliance report. The petitioners had submitted that land mafia occupied their land in Gulistan-e-Johar and prayed to the court to direct the authorities concerned to take action against the grabbers and vacate their land.
There are two major partners in the Encroachment business – Police and local political parties. An ethnic party earns as much as a million a day only from Saddar Area, Karachi. Absolutely no chance this order of the Hon Court will be implemented in decades.
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