Karachi: The Sindh High Court (SHC) has ordered against registering sale, lease or sub-lease deed in any part of the province unless the competent authority issues the final building construction plan.
The orders were issued on the petitions of Saira, Syed Irfan Ali Rashdi and others against construction of illegal buildings in Block 5 of Gulshan-e-Iqbal and the Mehmoodabad locality.
The report that Karachi District Registrar Ghulam Abbas Naich submitted in the court stated that three sub-registrars had been suspended for registering sub-leases of properties in violation of the Sindh Building Control Ordinance.
Naich assured the bench that concrete measures were being taken by his department as well as by the Board of Revenue (BoR) to ensure that no such illegal act was repeated by any sub-registrar in Karachi.
He assured the court that henceforth no sale, lease or sub-lease deed would be registered by any sub-registrar in Karachi without presentation of the building completion plan in accordance with the building control ordinance.
The SHC’s division bench headed by Justice Nadeem Akhtar ordered that no sale, lease or sub-lease deed should be registered by any sub-registrar in any part of the province unless completion of building construction plan was issued by the competent authority.
It is pertinent to mention here that the sub-registrars issued three sub-leases for a same apartment.
