SC orders demolition of illegal wedding halls in Karachi
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April 9, 2021
KARACHI: The Supreme Court (SC) on Thursday ordered immediate demolition of all illegal marriage halls in the port city. A three-member SC bench headed by Chief Justice of Pakistan (CJP) Gulzar Ahmed heard various petitions related to marriage halls at the apex court’s Karachi Registry. Advocate Anwar Mansoor Khan, counsel for Korangi Marriage Halls Association, prayed that the marriage halls of Korangi were located on a commercial strip and had legal status. “The SBCA (Sindh Building Control Authority) should be stopped from demolishing the wedding halls. People do not like to live right on the roadside, that is why the strip has been commercialised,” the counsel prayed.
KARACHI: The Supreme Court on Thursday came down hard on the provincial and local authorities over unauthorised allotment of land and lack of town planning in the metropolis.
A three-judge SC bench headed by Chief Justice Gulzar Ahmed slammed the Karachi commissioner, director general of the Sindh Building Control Authority and a senior member of the Sindh Revenue Board (SRB) as they failed to offer any explanation about the incorporation of land reserved for a road into a plot in the Sindhi Muslim Housing Society.
The visibly irked chief justice wondered under what law a mukhtiarkar could operate on the land of a housing society after a report of the mukhtiarkar was placed before the bench about leasing out the plot in question and a 15-storey building known as Nasla Tower built on it.
SC orders removal of marriage halls from residential areas
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April 9, 2021
KARACHI: The Supreme Court on Thursday observed that the Revenue Department, Sindh Building Control Authority and sub-registrars’ offices in Karachi have become places for minting billions of rupees.
Hearing the petitions against illegal encroachments on public parks and amenity plots in Karachi, the Supreme Court’s three-member bench, headed by Chief Justice Gulzar Ahmed, took an exception to Sindh Chief Minister Syed Murad Ali Shah for not taking proper action for remedying the state of affairs of Karachi despite the court’s direction.
The court observed that the Sindh chief minister was directed to submit a report with regard to steps being taken to improve the state of affairs in Karachi as there was total collapse of all civic agencies in the city, however, the CM’s report gave a clean chit to the Board of Revenue, SBCA and Karachi Water and Sewerage Board by stating that “all is
SC orders removal of marriage halls from residential areas of Karachi
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April 9, 2021
KARACHI: The Supreme Court on Thursday observed that the Revenue Department, Sindh Building Control Authority and sub-registrars’ offices in Karachi have become places for minting billions of rupees.
Hearing the petitions against illegal encroachments on public parks and amenity plots in Karachi, the Supreme Court’s three-member bench, headed by Chief Justice Gulzar Ahmed, took an exception to Sindh Chief Minister Syed Murad Ali Shah for not taking proper action for remedying the state of affairs of Karachi despite the court’s direction.
The court observed that the Sindh chief minister was directed to submit a report with regard to steps being taken to improve the state of affairs in Karachi as there was total collapse of all civic agencies in the city, however, the CM’s report gave a clean chit to the Board of Revenue, SBCA and Karachi Water and Sewerage Board by stating that
The Supreme Court on Thursday came down hard on the provincial and local authorities over unauthorised allotment of land and lack of town planning in the metropolis. ─ Photo by Aliraza Khatri/File
KARACHI: The Supreme Court on Thursday came down hard on the provincial and local authorities over unauthorised allotment of land and lack of town planning in the metropolis.
A three-judge SC bench headed by Chief Justice Gulzar Ahmed slammed the Karachi commissioner, director general of the Sindh Building Control Authority and a senior member of the Sindh Revenue Board (SRB) as they failed to offer any explanation about the incorporation of land reserved for a road into a plot in the Sindhi Muslim Housing Society.