KARACHI: Pakistan Railway (PR) employees on Saturday moved the Sindh High Court (SHC) requesting it to order the authorities concerned to remove the encroachments from Gulshan-e-Yousuf, an area in Landhi named after former prime minister Yousuf Raza Gilani.
As many as 16 amongst 1,400 PR employees who were allotted the plots in Gulshan-e-Yousuf in 1988 petitioned the high court through their lawyer Advocate Nadeem Shaikh and submitted that they were the real allotees of the land which has been encroached.
Zareena Begum, Muhammad Siddiqui, Muhammad Nawaz, Kala Khan Mughal, Asad Ameer and 11 others confirmed the court that the then railway minister Gilani had announced to give plots to 1,400 employees in Landhi’s Gulshan-e-Yousuf.
The petitioners added that employees are still deprived of plots even after the passage of 29 years while the land has been grabbed. Citing home department, commissioner Karachi, Karachi Metropolitan Corporation’s anti-encroachment cell, Sindh inspector general of police, district inspector general east and others as the respondents, the petitioners requested the court to direct the authorities concerned to remove the encroachment with the help of law enforcers.
The court was further requested to order that if the authorities fail to vacate the land from clutches of the grabbers, the government should arrange alternate plots for the employees.
