{"id":15773,"date":"2022-01-31T09:14:18","date_gmt":"2022-01-31T09:14:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailykashmirpost.com\/eng\/?p=15773"},"modified":"2022-01-31T09:14:18","modified_gmt":"2022-01-31T09:14:18","slug":"sc-suspends-lhc-ruling-in-ravi-riverfront-project-case","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailykashmirpost.com\/eng\/2022\/01\/31\/sc-suspends-lhc-ruling-in-ravi-riverfront-project-case\/","title":{"rendered":"SC suspends LHC ruling in Ravi riverfront project case"},"content":{"rendered":"

ISLAMABAD:<\/strong>The Supreme Court on Monday suspended the ruling of the\u00a0Lahore<\/a>\u00a0High Court (LHC) in the Ravi Urban Development Plan case and allowed the Punjab government to continue work on the project.<\/p>\n

The bench was hearing appeals against the annulment of the project, earlier declared \u201cunconstitutional\u201d by the\u00a0Lahore<\/a>\u00a0High Court (LHC) on January 25 as the project lacked a master plan.<\/p>\n

Earlier in the hearing, the apex court reprimanded the legal team of the Punjab government for appearing before the bench in the case unprepared.<\/p>\n

\u201cYou do not know what the case is?\u201d asked Justice Ijazul Ahsan when AGP Owais was unable to answer the question. \u201cIt seems that you have not prepared.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Punjab AGP replied that the provincial government was not a party to the case in the high court\u2019s verdict. \u201cNot being party to one of 18 petitions does not matter,\u201d Justice Ahsan remarked, adding that the Punjab government had presented its position in the high court.<\/p>\n

The petitions were against the public hearing of the environment agency, AGP Punjab prayed further.<\/p>\n

The justice replied that according to the records, acquisition of lands for the project was also challenged and added that the provincial government’s legal team should not misrepresent in court.<\/p>\n

In its\u00a0January 25 decision<\/a>, the LHC had stated that \u201cany scheme if established without [a] master plan is unconstitutional”.<\/p>\n

The court had also noted that proper procedure was not adopted in purchasing agricultural land for the Ravi Urban Development project in Lahore and Sheikhupura, therefore, it declared the practice of acquiring the land through amendment in Section 4 of the RUDA Ordinance \u201cunconstitutional\u201d.<\/p>\n

\u201cSection 4 of the RUDA (amendment) Ordinance 2021 is contrary to Article 144 of the Constitution,\u201d the order said. \u201cThe acquirement notification of Section 4 is illegal.\u201d<\/p>\n

However, on January 28, Prime Minister Imran Khan had said the government would now\u00a0invoke\u00a0the jurisdiction<\/a>\u00a0of the Supreme Court in the case.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe case would be presented in a better manner to bring to the court\u2019s attention the scheme\u2019s significance in view of urban development and civic facilities,\u201d the premier had said.<\/p>\n

PM Imran had highlighted the salient features of the project, including plantation of twenty million trees as part of forestation, construction of barrages to shore up the water table and filtration of sewerage.<\/p>\n

Giving grounds for the ambitious $Rs20bn project, the premier had explained that the riverfront project would yield employment opportunities and encourage foreign investment, adding that an amount of Rs1.5 billion had been already received in this regard.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

ISLAMABAD:The Supreme Court on Monday suspended the ruling of the\u00a0Lahore\u00a0High Court (LHC) in the Ravi Urban Development Plan case and allowed the Punjab government to continue work on the project. The bench was hearing appeals against the annulment of the project, earlier declared \u201cunconstitutional\u201d by the\u00a0Lahore\u00a0High Court (LHC) on January 25 as the project lacked […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":15774,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40,39],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-15773","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-latest-news","8":"category-pakistan"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailykashmirpost.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15773","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailykashmirpost.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailykashmirpost.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailykashmirpost.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailykashmirpost.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15773"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dailykashmirpost.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15773\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15775,"href":"https:\/\/dailykashmirpost.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15773\/revisions\/15775"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailykashmirpost.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15774"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailykashmirpost.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15773"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailykashmirpost.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15773"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailykashmirpost.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15773"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}