Suo motu case: SC resumes hearing today into CDA plots allotment scam

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Staff Report

ISLAMABAD: A three-member bench of the Supreme Court (SC) will resume today (Monday) hearing into a suo moto case of a mega scam of plots’ allotment in sectors I-11 and I-12 of the federal capital by the Capital Development Authority (CDA).

The bench comprises Chief Justice (CJ) Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry, Justice Chaudhry Ijaz Ahmed and Justice Khalilur Rehman Ramday. CDA chairman, the Punjab additional advocate general, Islamabad inspector general of police and others will appear on the SC notice.

On the last hearing, the court had directed CDA to prepare a list of 240 genuine affectees of Sarian and Bokra villages to allot plots to them against their acquired land and submit the report the court.

Counsel for CDA Tariq Mehmood had informed the court that land for Sector I-11 was acquired in 1969 and for I-12 in 1966-67. He had said that in compliance with the court orders, the CDA approached 240 affectees and offered them plots at an alternative place, however, now they claimed that they were actually 1,143 instead of 240.

He had contended that the affectees of Sarian and Bokra villages were creating difficulties for CDA in development of these sectors. The CJ had remarked that instead of giving land to genuine people, the CDA with the connivance of police allotted plots to fake people.

The CJ had taken a suo motu notice of the matter on a news report that CDA had embezzled Rs 7 billion in allotment of plots in these sectors.

According to the news report, CDA in connivance with the police had registered a fake case against the locals who were denied plots in the new award of compensation against their land acquired by CDA.

The court had noted that CDA procedure to compensate people did not appear transparent. The court had taken a serious notice when it came to know that CDA had allotted 1997 plots in Sector I-11 to its employees.