Karachi
January 9, 2021
The Sindh High Court (SHC) has directed a lawyer who is challenging the Karachi Metropolitan Corporationâs anti-encroachment drive in the Mehmoodabad area to satisfy it about the maintainability of the petition, saying that action is being taken on directives of the Supreme Court.
At a hearing on Friday, Zahid Ramzan and other petitioners said the anti encroachment cell had issued notices to them in violation of the law for the vacation of the houses situated in Liaquat Ashraf Colony of the Mehmoodabad area.
They said they had been issued with leases by KMC and their houses were not constructed on the storm-water drainâs land. They submitted that KMC authorities were misinterpreting the orders of the Supreme Court, and requested the court to restrain the KMC and other authorities from dispossessing them from their houses. A division bench, headed by Justice Mohammad Junaid Ghaffar, turned down the counselâs request for the grant of an inter