{"id":1739,"date":"2021-03-22T07:53:35","date_gmt":"2021-03-22T07:53:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nationaltimes.pk\/eng\/?p=1739"},"modified":"2021-03-22T07:53:35","modified_gmt":"2021-03-22T07:53:35","slug":"shc-hears-petition-against-nullah-anti-encroachment-drive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nationaltimes.pk\/eng\/2021\/1739\/","title":{"rendered":"SHC hears petition against nullah anti-encroachment drive"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>KARACHI:(newsdesk) A bench of Sindh High Court on Monday heard a petition of residents against demolition of houses adjacent to drains in Orangi Town.The counsel of the residents while arguing over the maintainability of the petition said that the leased houses being demolished in the name of illegal encroachments. \u201cThe petitioners have legal documents and lease papers,\u201d counsel said.\u201cUn planned construction and illegal approvals have inflicted harm to Karachi,\u201d the bench remarked.\u201cWho had issued lease on nullahs,\u201d Justice Hassan Azhar Rizvi questioned. \u201cThese houses are adjacent to the nullahs and have proper documents,\u201d counsel replied.\u201cDon\u2019t you remember the situation in Karachi in rainfall,\u201d Justice Hassan Azhar asked. \u201cChildren were swept away in Orangi nullah amid rainfall,\u201d the court further remarked.The bench issued notices to competent authority over the residents petition and summoned reply from the KMC and other concerned departments upto the next hearing.The court also ordered to satisfy the court over maintainability of the petition.A major anti-encroachment operation along the city\u2019s nullahs has been launched under deployment of the law enforcement agencies.Recently, the land and anti-encroachment department had demanded cancellation of lease to the plots alongside the storm water drains.In a letter addressed to the Director General Katchi Abadis and DG Karachi Development Authority (KDA), the anti-encroachment department had demanded cancellation of lease agreements of the plots adjacent to Gujjar Nullah and Orangi Nullah.The leased plots are main hurdle in implementation of expansion projects of the storm water drains, the letter read.Karachi\u2019s drainage system is being remodeled following devastating rains past monsoon in the city due to choking of rain drains and major nullahs.The experts put forward their recommendations advising restoration of the rain drains and storm-water drainage in their original shape by removing the structures flanked by nullahs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>KARACHI:(newsdesk) A bench of Sindh High Court on Monday heard a petition of residents against demolition of houses adjacent to drains in Orangi Town.The counsel of the residents while arguing over the maintainability of the petition said that the leased houses being demolished in the name of illegal encroachments. \u201cThe petitioners have legal documents and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1740,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1739","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-latest_news","category-national","entry"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.0 - 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