The Sindh High Court (SHC) has appointed the Nazir of the court for submitting a report with regard to construction of a cattle farm near Dunba Goth in the Malir area.
The direction came on an application filed by residents of the area against the construction of a cattle farm in their locality.
The petitioners submitted that a private respondent had constructed an illegal cattle farm in the area by encroaching upon the Malir River without any approval from the Sindh Building Control Authority and other relevant authorities.
They submitted that the private respondent were not only dumping the waste of animals into an unauthorised place and their actions had been causing chocking of sewerage lines of the area.
The petitioners submitted that the private respondent’s act had caused great inconvenience to the residents who were also facing respiratory and other skin infections due to the cattle farm. They also questioned permission of local authorities to the cattle farm owner and requested the high court to delist the private respondent from setting up a cattle market on government land.
The SHC directed the Nazir to inspect the site and submit a report with regard to the unauthorised construction.
It is pertinent to mention that the Malir deputy commissioner had earlier filed a report mentioning that civil suits were pending before the court in the matter in which the private respondent had encroached upon 400 acres land in addition to 178 acres earlier allotted to him.
The high court had directed the local government to take steps to clean the sewerage lines and ensure that the residents of the area were saved from environmental hazards.
Meanwhile, the SHC directed the Malir deputy commissioner to visit an amenity land in Rehri Goth in the Ibrahim Hyderi area and ensure that all illegal occupiers of a public school and playground had vacated them.
The direction came on a petition of Mohammad Ismail who had approached the high court against encroachments and illegal occupation on the government school and playground land.
The petitioner had submitted that private respondents were encroaching upon the Masjidi Primary School and playground in the Ibrahim Hyderi area. He submitted that the local administration was not taking action against such encroachments. The SHC was requested to direct the local administration to remove the encroachments from the public school and playground and restore the land to its original purpose.