CDA officials challenge transfer of 49 wings to IMC

Islamabad

A section officer of the Capital Development Authority (CDA) and two others have challenged before the Islamabad High Court (IHC) transfer of the 49 administrative wings of the civic body to the Islamabad Metropolitan Corporation (IMC).

Petitioners Azhar Khan, Muhammad Nisar Akhtar and Syed Munawar Ali Shah have prayed to the court to set aside the notifications dated 22 and 27 June 2016 through which this transfer of power has taken place.

They cited Secretary Ministry of Law & Justice, Ministry of Capital Administration and Development Division (CADD), Ministry of Interior, IMC, Chairman CDA and Director General CDA as respondents.

The petitioners through their petition contended before the court that these notifications were issued without going into the law laid down in CDA ordinance. It is the federal government who in case if the authority is dissolved shall issue a notification and the assets shall be transferred to the federal government. But the respondents illegally and unlawfully issued notifications so much so that through a single letter all the powers entrusted to CDA have been transferred to IMC petitioner said.

The petitioners said they are government functionaries and these notifications were against their fundamental rights.

They contended that the IMC has been harassing employees of the CDA and it has also trespassed CDA offices.

The petitioners have prayed to the court to not only set aside the notification but to bar the IMC from interfering in CDA’s internal affairs and harassing its employees.