KARACHI: The residents of a housing society built on Kidney Hill Park have been served eviction notices, a day after the Supreme Court ordered the land to be cleared.
A Supreme Court bench headed by Chief Justice Gulzar Ahmed told the city’s commissioner to clear the land or he will be sent to jail. The notices were issued by senior director of land anti-encroachment on the orders of Karachi Municipal Commissioner Afzal Zaidi.
The park, located near Rangoonwala Hall in Karachi’s Dhoraji Colony, is spread across 62 acres and was once a recreational site for the residents of the area. However, some portions of the park were encroached by land grabbers after 2006 and residential units and dairy farms were set up.
Thirty-four houses were served notices on Wednesday by a team from the Gulshan-e-Iqbal anti-encroachment department. The notices were pasted on the house walls and handed to people inside the houses.
The notice reads that the remaining 7.5 acres of the 62 acres of Kidney Hill Park has to be recovered on the orders of the top court. The residents have been given thirty days to leave and hand over possession of the land to the KMC.
