The Sindh High Court has dismissed a lawsuit in respect of the allotment of 40 acres of land proposed to be handed over to the Sindh Institute of Cardiovascular Diseases (SICVD) for setting up its Karachi centre in Landhi by the provincial government.Basham Baloch and others challenged the allotment of land to the SICVD for the purpose of construction of its head office to accommodate in-patients, out-patients, clinics, doctors’ and nurses’ residences, and administration block in Landhi.
The plaintiffs’ said the SICVD had requested the provincial government for the allotment of 40 acres to construct its head office, for which the agricultural land of the plaintiffs had been identified. The counsel said the plaintiffs had been in possession of 96 acres of land for agriculture purposes since the 1980s, and restraining orders had already been passed by the court in respect of the land. According to the counsel, the plaintiffs had established themselves as permanent tenants or Haris entitled to permanent holding individually within the parameter laid down by the land reform regulations, viz. 16 acres each, as the subsistence holding and jointly as families of the predecessors in the interest of the plaintiffs.
