Hand over Askari Park to KMC, SC orders

A two-member SC bench, comprising Chief Justice Gulzar Ahmed and Justice Qazi Mohammad Amin, issued the ruling whereas listening to a case associated to the Askari Park on the high courtroom’s Karachi Registry.

The apex courtroom directed the KMC administrator to take management of the Askari Park and open it for folks. There ought to be no entry price on the park, dominated the courtroom.

The chief justice directed the KMC to return the present swings to the present administration and set up new ones. The courtroom additionally directed razing all of the outlets on the park’s land.

Counsel of Corps V of the Pakistan Military and Karachi Administrator Murtaza Wahab appeared earlier than the courtroom within the case.

On the outset of right now’s listening to, Murtaza Wahab instructed the courtroom that Askari Park was given to the military beneath an settlement in 2005.

“The settlement was for a interval of 99 years,” added the defence counsel.

Justice Qazi Mohammad Amin instructed the defence counsel: “The park had been handed over to you [army] in order that nobody else may occupy it.”

“We’re ordering you to return the land to its proprietor,” mentioned the choose.

How 38 outlets and a wedding corridor have been constructed on the park’s land, requested the choose. The bench additionally raised questions over the standard of swings on the park.

The defence counsel knowledgeable the courtroom that they’d nothing to do with the outlets on the park’s land.

The apex courtroom ordered at hand over the Askari Amusement Park to KMC in two weeks with a directive to demolish the outlets and marriage corridor established on the land.