The decision of the Karachi City District Government to lay out a park on the 25-acre PECHS-2, Block D, Jheel Park land, hitherto under encroachment, has hit hard a few lessees and builders who termed CDGK's decision contrary to Sindh High Court's decision of December 1989.
The affected people on Monday showed to Business Recorder a copy of the decision of the Sindh High Court, dated December 6, 1989, under the signatures of Justice Saeeduz Zaman Siddiqui and Justice Salahuddin Mirza that declared the plot of land contiguous to the park land and having 106 plots of various sizes planned on it as of clear title. The affected people maintain that the plots under their occupation were not 'encroached' plots.
They said that after a lapse of fifteen/twenty years these legally allotted plots have been made 'disputed'. "To call the legal owners of the plots 'illegal occupants' is unjust and contrary to the decision of Sindh High Court. It amounts to contempt of court," they added.
The spokesman of CDGK said that the land under encroachment, about 15 acres out of the total earmarked 25 acres land, for Jheel Park has been taken back from the encroachers. He said that the entire land would be utilised for the purpose for which it is shown in the master plan.
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