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Builder on the run: Karachi’s Moon Garden residents move court against eviction orders
November 12, 2015 @ 2:25 PM
by Web Desk
KARACHI: The residents of Moon Garden apartment in Karachi’s Gulshan-e-Iqbal area braved a fate worse than death on Wednesday when the Sindh High Court ordered authorities to get their building vacated – abode by hundreds of cultured families for 15 years.
The dwellers took the streets and remained there since Wednesday night to protest the orders. Women, children and elderly persons questioned why the builder was spared from action – if residential plaza was indeed illegal – when he was leasing out flats to buyers.
The Railways Employees Cooperative Society had filed a petition against the illegal construction of the multi-storey building on its land.
A division bench headed by Justice Sajjad Ali Shah directed the three utilities – K-Electric, Sui Southern Gas Company Limited and Karachi Water and Sewerage Board – and other civil agencies to disconnect the amenities to the project. The court further ordered that and if the occupants luggage be taken out from the flats by allowing them to remove it without any inventory – in case they refuse comply with court directions.
In a latest development, Sindh Local Government Minister Nasir Hussain Shah has claimed that the land where Moon Garden building is located, belongs to the Sindh government.
He has also offered the dwellers for legal assistance in the case.
Meanwhile, residents of the buildings have also filed a petition with the Sindh High Court against eviction orders by the same court.
The team of K-Electric also reached the building to cut off power. However, residents put up strong resistance and blocked route leading to their apartment.
On September 29 the court had asked Sindh’s inspector general of police and Karachi’s additional inspector general to attach the building after getting it vacated within 30 days and submit a report.
IGP Ghulam Hyder Jamali, who was issued with a show-cause notice at the last hearing for not getting the building vacated, submitted an affidavit and mentioned that the additional inspector general of the province and the DIG East had been tasked with to complying with the court orders.
The court was further told that 100 families were inducted into the building and that the families were given allotment by the owner of the project for settlement.
Builder on the run: Karachi’s Moon Garden residents move court against eviction orders -
November 12, 2015 @ 2:25 PM
by Web Desk
KARACHI: The residents of Moon Garden apartment in Karachi’s Gulshan-e-Iqbal area braved a fate worse than death on Wednesday when the Sindh High Court ordered authorities to get their building vacated – abode by hundreds of cultured families for 15 years.
The dwellers took the streets and remained there since Wednesday night to protest the orders. Women, children and elderly persons questioned why the builder was spared from action – if residential plaza was indeed illegal – when he was leasing out flats to buyers.
The Railways Employees Cooperative Society had filed a petition against the illegal construction of the multi-storey building on its land.
A division bench headed by Justice Sajjad Ali Shah directed the three utilities – K-Electric, Sui Southern Gas Company Limited and Karachi Water and Sewerage Board – and other civil agencies to disconnect the amenities to the project. The court further ordered that and if the occupants luggage be taken out from the flats by allowing them to remove it without any inventory – in case they refuse comply with court directions.
In a latest development, Sindh Local Government Minister Nasir Hussain Shah has claimed that the land where Moon Garden building is located, belongs to the Sindh government.
He has also offered the dwellers for legal assistance in the case.
Meanwhile, residents of the buildings have also filed a petition with the Sindh High Court against eviction orders by the same court.
The team of K-Electric also reached the building to cut off power. However, residents put up strong resistance and blocked route leading to their apartment.
On September 29 the court had asked Sindh’s inspector general of police and Karachi’s additional inspector general to attach the building after getting it vacated within 30 days and submit a report.
IGP Ghulam Hyder Jamali, who was issued with a show-cause notice at the last hearing for not getting the building vacated, submitted an affidavit and mentioned that the additional inspector general of the province and the DIG East had been tasked with to complying with the court orders.
The court was further told that 100 families were inducted into the building and that the families were given allotment by the owner of the project for settlement.
Builder on the run: Karachi’s Moon Garden residents move court against eviction orders -
