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COURTESY : THE NEWS by RAUF KLASRA
The Supreme Court has dismissed the case against 499 Chak Shahzad farm owners, including President Pervez Musharraf and former prime minister Shaukat Aziz and many other members of the powerful elite.
After six months of unstoppable tension, these 499 owners of big farm houses, worth over Rs 75 billion, have finally something to cheer about because they have been cleared of misusing farm lands for their residence.
Attorney General of Pakistan Malik Qayyum confirmed to The News on Wednesday that the pending case against these farm owners of Chak Shahzad had been dismissed by the Supreme Court, as the issue of price hike and farms did not relate to the court.
He said, while dismissing the case, the SC bench had observed that the issue did not warrant any intervention on the part of the court as there were other institutions to take note of the price hike issue.
Malik Qayyum said the court had asked the CDA authorities to act upon their own laws. He also confirmed that the court had observed that the CDA had allotted these farm houses in the hilly areas where the availability of water was a big problem.
Meanwhile, PPP Senator Enver Baig, who was also regularly appearing in the Supreme Court as one of the stakeholders to represent the consumers rights, said he had argued with the honourable judges that the Supreme Court should not throw this important case out as the people were suffering because of high prices and non-availability of essential goods and these farm owners were supposed to grow vegetables and poultry products which they never did.
The former Supreme Court bench, headed by the deposed chief justice Iftikhar Mohammad Chaudhry, had started suo motu proceedings against the price hike in the country. The Supreme Court had then summoned CDA authorities for allotting big farm houses at throwaway prices to those powerful people in the name of growing vegetables and poultry products where residential places, marriage halls, golf courses, swimming polls, etc, were constructed.
During the court proceedings before Nov 3, it had emerged that these powerful owners had a total of 2,500 acres of prime land in the suburbs of Islamabad worth about Rs 75 billion. The earlier Supreme Court proceedings against these 499 owners of Chak Shahzad, according to many observers, was one of the causes of the removal from office of the ex-chief justice as his action had offended these top guns sitting in the Shaukat Aziz government.
Following the court proceedings, the CDA had also served show-cause notices on 70 owners of these farms, accused them of violating the terms and conditions on which they got these farms.
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