KPT housing society wins Mai Kolachi bypass land dispute with Sindh govt

KARACHI: The Sindh High Court decided the land dispute between the KPT officers housing society and the government of Sindh in favour of the housing society after 18 years of litigation, ARY News reported on Saturday.

A single bench of the high court comprised of Justice Mohammad Ali Mazhar decreed allotment of 130 acres land at Mai Kolachi Bypass Expressway in favour of the KPT officers’ society.

The society had challenged a Sindh government order pertaining to the development work at the property claiming the land belongs to the government of Sindh.

The society had submitted to the court that the land was owned by the KPT and its board had alloted the land and its lease to the KPT housing society in 1990.

The Sindh government in written statement pleaded the land does not belong to the KPT but owned by the provincial government. The revenue department, however, admitted that the KPT exercised control over the land since 1887 but they were never transferred by the provincial government to the KPT.

The bench observed that the government neither denied the transaction through which the KDA had acquired the land from the KPT for KDA Scheme No.5 nor denied the leasehold rights deed signed between the KPT and the United State Consulate plot at the M.T. Khan, Mai Kolachi Road, nor denied a letter of the then Chief Minster Sindh to the then Prime Minister in which the former had suggested that 75 acres of Chinna Creek may be acquired.

The court observed that chief minister in his letter to the prime minister had stated that the land falls within the jurisdiction of KPT and it should be transferred to the Sindh government for better utilization and development of the city to Sindh government.

The court observed that the KPT officer housing society was entitled to the decree for permanent injunction and decided the case in favour of the housing society.