LAHORE: Justice Ali Akbar
Qureshi of the Lahore High Court on Tuesday issued notice
to the Miani Sahib Graveyard Administration for Wednesday
(today) in a petition of six flower-shops owners seeking
directions for reopening their shops sealed under the encroachment
act.
Petitioners Shah Din, Wasim Sharif, Muhammad Asif, Muhammad
Ijaz, Muhammad Ishaque and Basharat Ali submitted that they
were running their shops at Lytton Road, outside the Miani
Sahib graveyard since the last 30 years on rent from the
graveyard administration. In 1992, the graveyard administration
after demolishing the structure of the shops rebuilt them.
Later, they were rented out. They submitted that earlier
the administration had tried to get the shops vacated but
they had managed to obtain an interim injunction from a
civil judge. They said on July 28, 2008, personnel of the
administration accompanied with some policemen forcefully
got 'us out without any prior notice.' "We showed them
our order, but it was all to nothing," he added. They
submitted that later it was told to them that the LHC had
ordered to remove the encroachments from the graveyard.
"It was in violation of court orders that men illegally
sealed our shops which were not encroachment in any way
as we were paying rent to the administration concerned,"
he added.
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