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CJP Gulzar Ahmed observed that removal of encroachments from government lands was the responsibility of the Revenue department and said the whole of Karachi had been developed on encroached government land.
The court observed that high rises have been constructed on encroached government lands at the Super Highway ahead of the University Road where boundary walls have been raised by encroachers.
Hearing the application about computerization of revenue record in Sindh, the SC’s three-member bench, headed by Chief Justice Pakistan Justice Gulzar Ahmed, observed that despite computerization of land record, dozens of cases were filed daily over fake documentation of properties.
The Supreme Court on Wednesday ordered the Sindh Board of Revenue to ensure that all encroached lands, including that of irrigation and forest departments, be recovered within a month and restored to its original position, and file a compliance report within one month.
The court ordered that all amenity lands, playgrounds and green belts encroached be restored to parks and no further encroachment shall be allowed.
The bench also ordered clearing all encroached lands of forest and irrigation departments, cancelling their forged documents and undertaking plantation there.
The Supreme Court has directed Thursday the federal government to raze at least 250 structures in the P&T Colony of Gizri Area and file report within one month.
The court observed that apparently illegally-constructed buildings in cantonment boards or private ownership therein was contrary to the cantonment boards laws and the Constitution and issued notices to attorney general of Pakistan, CBC, to assist the court about the status of all the lands with the cantonment boards.
Separately, the verdict laid instructions for Karachi’s commissioner as well, directing him to bring down all the constructions in the encroached lands around Kidney Hill Park and submit a report to the court within two weeks.
Demolish all the constructions of Royal Park Residency and having swept off the wreckage, develop a park on the land, the verdict further directed the government adding that another under-construction project by the same developers must be ceased by the government at earliest.
Senior member BOR Qazi Faiz filed a report about reconstruction of record of property rights, burnt after assassination of former prime minister Benazir Bhutto in December 2007. He submitted that the Board of Revenue carried out detailed verification of entries, which were not in consonance with microfilming record of 1984-85.
Senior Member BOR submitted that blocking of suspicious entries of Karachi Division was in progress where 62 dehs out of 102 dehs had been blocked and the commissioner Karachi has been asked to undertake suo moto proceedings. Deputy commissioner Malir, in this response, has restored 1,000 acres of government land from encroachments.
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