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Gizri flyover petition: Environmental survey report sought from SEPA - Lahore_Real_Estate - 03-18-2010 12:20 PM
KARACHI: The Sindh High Court Wednesday directed Sindh Environmental Protection Agency (SEPA) director to submit the environmental survey report of the Gizri flyover project till April 5.
A division bench comprising Chief Justice Sarmad Jalal Osmany and Justice Sajjad Ali Shah was hearing petition filed by residents of Khayaban-e-Hafiz, DHA, against violation of environmental laws allegedly committed while constructing the flyover on Main Gizri Road. SEPA Director Waqar Hussain submitted that the agency had carried out survey of area in question and recommended its commercialisation.
The counsel for the DHA furnished a copy of the interim report of committee, formed by the DHA to address the issues of petitioners and other residents of locality.
SHC grants interim bail to SSP: The SHC granted interim bail before arrest to SSP Police Aftab Ahmed booked in the missing persons case of 2004 registered on direction of the Supreme Court.
The apex court had ordered registration of a case over the disappearance of Hafiz Khan Muhammad Chang and his nephew Abdul Waheed Chang.
The SHC chief justice said in order: “According to counsel for the applicant, pre-arrest bail to two co-accused was granted and therefore on point of consistency of law, this pre-arrest bail application be granted. Interim pre-arrest bail is granted in sum of Rs 200,000 and PR bond in the same amount.”
SHC summons IO in Steel Mills corruption case: Justice Amir Hani Muslim of the SHC summoned the police’s investigation officer (IO) on the bail application of Pakistan Steel Mills’ principal executive officer in a corruption case.
Applicant Brig (retd) Abdul Qayyum submitted he had no role in the corruption committed by commissioning Rs 81 million in the head of PSM canteens bills. On January 26, 2010, the trial court had dismissed the bail plea of the applicant, who was taken into custody by the FIA.
Non-regularisation of fishermen’s village: A division bench of the SHC comprising Justice Mushir Alam and Justice Aqeel Ahmed Abbasi issued notices to the Board of Revenue and other respondents over non-regularisation of the fishermen’s village in Rehri Goth, Malir.
Petitioners Sakina and six other residents of Ilyas Goth submitted that the fishing community applied to the Sindh Gothabad Department to sanction their village 200 acres, out of 16,000 acres of land in Rehri Goth. They stated that the authorities concerned were not regularizing the village despite the passage of a long time. ppi