KARACHI: The Supreme Court has rejected a petition seeking review against the demolition of the high-rise Nasla Tower and ordered the building to be vacated within a month.
According to details, an anti-encroachment case and a petition seeking review of the Supreme Court’s previous order to demolish the Nasla Tower were also heard in the Supreme Court Karachi Registry. A three-member bench of judges headed by the Chief Justice of Pakistan Gulzar Ahmed rejected the petition against the demolition of Nasla Tower.
The lawyer for the tower’s residents argued that construction has also been allowed in cases of lease cancellation and issues should be reviewed again and inspected. The order to demolish the entire tower is not appropriate, the lawyer requested.
Lawyer Munir A. Malik argued that the tower was leased by the Sindhi Muslim Society, adding that yhe commissioner is “lying in his report”. Justice Aizaz-ul-Ahsan remarked that Sindhi Muslim had no authority to lease.
Malik requested that the site be re-inspected, to which the chief justice said: “Why should we do that when we have all the documents ready here?” The lawyer said that this case does not concern the Sindh government, or the federal government, and has nothing to do with Sindhi Muslim Society.
The lawyer insisted that no encroachment had taken place to which the chief justice said they have encroached upon public land. The counsel for the allottees asked for one more chance to look for the required documents,
The Supreme Court rejected the petition and directed the commissioner to vacate the tower within a month. The court also issued notices to the Sindh government, director of the anti-encroachment department, and other concerned agencies.
