The Sindh High Court restrained Sindh Industrial Trading Estate (SITE) from taking any coercive/adverse action against our Clients, and further restrained SITE from creating any third-party interest on our Client’s Industrial Plot.
By way of background, a Constitutional Petition was filed after being aggrieved by the actions/omissions of SITE, as it had malafidely, unlawfully, and unilaterally cancelled our Client’s allotment on the ground of non-payment of dues for a Plot/Factory measuring 1.0 acre, situated at Scheme 33, SITE area, North Karachi, Karachi (hereinafter referred to as the ‘Subject Property’). The Petitioners were represented by Barrister Junaid Ahmed, assisted by Kawish H. Naqvi. The High Court on 21.03.2022 passed an ad-interim stay order restraining SITE from taking any coercive action against our Client and its Property. The High Court issued notices to the Advocate General of Sindh and SITE for 11.04.2022.
It is important to mention that there are some precedents where the Courts have declared the cancellation of allotment on non-payment of dues as illegal and held that allotment of the land cannot be cancelled on the non-payment of fees/dues. However, there is an illicit practice ongoing in some government departments where they cancel or threaten to cancel an allotment on a false pretext, and then allot or threaten to allot the same plot to a fictitious/third party in order to blackmail and pressurize industrialists. Stay updated about the Sindh High Court SITE restraining order with JA Legal.