SHC tells Hyderabad SSP to recover 8-year-old missing boy

The Sindh High Court on Friday directed the SSP of Hyderabad and the SHO of the Phuleli police station to recover an eight-year-old missing boy and submit a report.

The direction came on a petition of Mehwish, who sought the recovery of her boy, Zaheer Ali, who went missing from Hyderabad. The mother submitted that police and the counsel were cooperating with her, but she could not afford coming to the court on every hearing due to financial constraints. She requested the court to dispose of her petition as she left it to Allah’s will if her boy was to be found.

A high court division bench headed by Acting Chief Justice Naimatullah Phulpoto dismissed the petition as withdrawn, but keeping in view of special circumstances it directed the SSP of Hyderabad and SHO of the Phuleli police station to make all possible efforts for the recovery of the petitioner’s son and submit a compliance report in three weeks.

The court also directed police and other law enforcement agencies to submit a progress report with regard to the recovery of Usman Farooq and Ali Bahadur. The court was informed that one missing person Nisar Raja returned home. The court was requested to dispose of the petition as it had served the purpose.

Plea against MUCT

The Sindh High Court directed the Karachi Metropolitan Corporation to file comments on petition that challenged the provision of municipal utility tax rules for entering into a contract with public/private utility service providers for the collection of MUCT.

Petitioner Chaudhry Tariq Javed and others submitted that provisions of KMC, MUCT Rules 2022 to the extent of Rule 2(b), 3, 4(a), (b), (c), (d), (e), 5(a), (b) for entering into contract with public/private utility service providers for collection of MUCT Tax are inconsistent, ultra vires and in contravention with the parent Act. The petitioners also sought enforcement of power of collection regarding MUCT Tax under Section 100(2), 103(3), 141(1) of

SLGA, 2013 as well as challenged Council Resolution No.22 dated December 11, 2023. The counsel sought interim stay order as the KMC had issued MUCT in electricity bills. The court turning down the request for an interim stay directed the KMC to submit replies on the petition by September 10.

The court had earlier observed that the juridical scrutiny and contractual dynamics between the KMC and K-Electric are under judicial review wherein the constitutional validity of the said rules were being contested.