IGP told to explain failure to comply with court orders

Karachi
The Sindh High Court issued a show-cause notice to the provincial police chief on Tuesday to explain why proceedings of disobedience should not be initiated against him for not complying with its orders to get vacated an illegal building built on a piece of land of the Railways Employees Cooperative Society.
The court had directed the inspector general of police (IGP) and Karachi’s additional inspector general on September 29 to ask the illegal occupants to leave and attach the building within 30 days and submit a report.
The directives had been issued on an appeal filed by the society against the illegal construction of the multi-storey building on its land in Gulshan-e-Iqbal.
The court also directed the Nazir to inspect the property raised after it issued had a restraining order on April 30, 2007 to the trial court to order the demolition of the unauthorized construction after verifying the Nazir’s report.
A provincial law officer informed the court that the IGP was attending the proceedings at the Supreme Court. Police officers who appeared before the court acknowledged that the court order had been received; however, it was not complied with. A division bench headed by Justice Sajjad Ali Shah directed him to submit his response within seven days.
Hindu girl marriage case
The medical board constituted to determine the age of a Hindu girl who converted to Islam and married a Muslim man in Nawabshah said in its report presented to the Sindh High Court that the age of girl was between 18 and 19 years.
The court had ordered the constitution of the medical board on a petition of Shabana, who sought the quashment of a kidnapping case against her spouse, Ali Gul, registered by the Nawabshah police.
Shabana submitted that she converted to Islam of her own will on October 5 and married Ali Gul, but her family members became annoyed and registered a case against her spouse.
The counsel for the petitioner submitted that Gul had been missing since October 28 and apprehended that he might have been arrested by the Nawabshah police.