KARACHI, May 12: The Sindh High Court on Monday summoned the Bin Qasim Town police officials to answer an allegation that they had refused to provide any protection to villagers against armed land-grabbers.
Petitioner Noor Mohammad Jat and other residents of Chashma Goth, Ibrahim Hyderi, alleged that they had been forced out of their huts in the fishermen’s village by armed raiders who had occupied their lands and were razing their dwellings. They said they had requested the police to drive out the armed land-grabbers. However, the police remained a silent spectator to hooliganism and lawlessness. The petitioners apprehended that the raiders had bribed police officials.
A division bench comprising Justices Mrs Qaiser Iqbal and Rana Mohammad Shamim summoned the town police officer, a deputy superintendent of police and the station house officer of the Ibrahim Hyderi police station.
Construction stayed
The same bench also restrained owner of a house in Bahadur Yar Jang Society, Bahadurabad, from raising unauthorised construction.
A petitioner contended that the owner was building a new floor on the roof of his house without any sanction from the Karachi Building Control Authority (KBCA).
The bench issued notices to the respondent owner and the KBCA for May 29 and stayed the unlawful construction in the meantime.
Teachers’ plea
Justice Arshad Noor Khan issued a notice to a school management in an application for interim injunction filed by Mrs Shahida Hussain in her suit for declaration and damages.
The plaintiff submitted through Advocate Syed Iqbal Haider that she had served the school for 25 years to the satisfaction not only of the management but also of the pupils and their parents. She was due to retire on June 30, 2008 but her services were terminated a year earlier in violation of the employment contract. In order to justify the wrongful action, the management alleged that her son had taken a hefty loan from it.
Seeking a declaration that her dismissal from service was illegal, she demanded a sum of Rs55 million her remunerations under the contract, damages and compensation for unlawful termination and baseless allegations.
Bail confirmed
Justice Azizullah M. Memon, on Monday confirmed the interim bail granted to two alleged copyright violators.
Faisal Nasim and Mohammad Farooq were booked for selling imitation battery cells in violation of a registered trade mark. Complainant Abdus Sattar Shaikh reported to the police that he manufactured battery cells with a registered brand name and colour scheme. The accused were found marketing cells carrying the same logo and colour scheme. He produced the genuine and faked cells and the police registered a case under the Copyright Right Act.
The accused applied for pre-arrest bail to a sessions court, which dismissed their plea. The high court granted them bail before arrest in the sum of Rs100,000 each.
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