Occupying state land in Malir: Sindh ACE submits final chargesheet against revenue officials, builders

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KARACHI: Sindh Anti -Corruption Establishment (ACE) has illegally seized 26 acres of valuable state land on 26 acres of valuable government land in Malir, Karachi, to illegally seize 26 acres of valuable land in the state.

Despite a thorough investigation and a final charge sheet in the Special Anti -Corruption Court, construction work on the aforementioned land is underway. According to documentary evidence available with the news, in addition to 26 acres, another piece of state land has been exceeded at 10 acres and some of them have already been sold to other builders. The Sindh government also initiated action against the encroachment and Commissioner Karachi sent a detailed report to the Sindh Chief Minister in which it recommended the recovery of state land.

According to the physical survey of ‘The News’, two high -rise buildings were under construction on the 36 -acre area under construction, located in Mehran I, and on the Jinnah Avenue of Malir Kent, in Deh Saiforn. The Sindh High Court has ordered an official field survey and demarcation which has also confirmed the land status as public ownership. The ACE launched an inquiry in July 2024, which will result in registration of 08/2024 FIR through the ACE East Zone. The matter started after lodging a complaint by Additional Deputy Commissioner I of District Malir, about the occupation of illegal land by corrupt government officials. Investigators are focused on allegations that private parties, DC Office Malir and Sindh Settlement and Survey Department’s corrupt government officials, were illegally seized in Deh Mehran I and Dahi Safwan.

In 2022, the survey department issued a government -related project, which identified 21 acres of land in Mehran -1 and about 5 acres of land in Saifurran as government property. Builders, with the help of corrupt revenue officials, allegedly manipulated government records to transfer the land ownership. Following the proceedings by the authorities, the occupants filed a petition in the Sindh High Court, challenging the legal status of the proceedings. In response, the SHC ordered a land survey, which confirmed it as a state land, which was illegally occupied by the builders. The final charge sheet presented by the Sindh Anti -Corruption Establishment includes the officials of the District Commissioner’s office, as well as the officials of the Settlement and Survey departments. He is alleged to have helped to occupy the land by declaring government records wrong and manipulating state land to private developers.

As part of the fraud scheme, the occupants changed the layout in 2010 by changing the location numbers from the Cantonment Board Faisal and getting the approval of the project. The investigation revealed that the land demarcation was carried out in 2011 at the behest of the accused’s Revenue officials, who deliberately abandoned critical details that identified the real status of the land. Under the supervision of the Sindh High Court, the neutral technical team has once again confirmed that the land was illegally occupied. Subsequently, the Director of Settlement Survey and Land Records, Sindh, canceled the 2011 fraud threshold. However, state land has not yet been recovered.

The final charge sheet also revealed contradictions in the actions of some officials of the Sindh Anti -Corruption Department, alleging that he was accused of shutting down a preliminary inquiry without any verification. As a result, the ACE has recommended legal action against both corrupt revenue officials and private land occupying illegal land. The case has highlighted the increasing issue of land occupation in Karachi, where powerful private developers, with the help of corrupt government officials, have disappointed efforts to recover the state land.