ISLAMABAD – The Islamabad Excessive Court docket (IHC) Thursday summoned the Metropolitan Company Islamabad (MCI) Administrator to seem in individual earlier than the court docket on subsequent the listening to of a petition difficult the gathering of entry charges in Islamabad’s New Blue Space.
A single bench of IHC comprising Justice Arbab Muhammad Tahir performed listening to in petition filed by Advocate Muhammad Tayyab by his counsels together with Zohaib Gondal, Hazrat Younis, and Muhammad Saeed Dar.
In the course of the listening to, the court docket sought clarification on the authorized foundation for the charge and requested below which legislation the authorities had been charging guests for getting into the realm. The court docket additionally issued notices to the Secretary Inside, the Chief Commissioner, and the MCI, directing them to submit their responses to the petition.
The imposition of an entry charge for the New Blue Space within the federal capital was challenged earlier than the Islamabad Excessive Court docket on Wednesday, with a petition in search of to declare the charge cost unlawful and null and void.
Advocate Muhammad Tayyib filed the petition and cited the Secretary Inside, Chief Commissioner, and Administrator MCI as respondents. Counsel for the petitioner argued that New Blue Space is a significant industrial hub that homes company headquarters, enterprise facilities, eating places, and different industrial institutions. Regardless of its standing as a public industrial district, the MCI has reportedly imposed a charge of Rs100 on autos utilizing the service street to entry the realm.
Based on the petition, the cost just isn’t a parking charge however an entry charge that applies to anybody utilizing the service street, no matter whether or not they park their automobile. The petitioner contended that the civic physique gives no further service or facility in alternate for the quantity being collected.
The petition additional said that charging residents for entry to a public industrial space violates established authorized rules and runs opposite to earlier judgments delivered by increased courts on related issues.
The petitioner has requested the Islamabad Excessive Court docket to declare the charge illegal and direct the related authorities to right away cease gathering expenses from guests getting into New Blue Space.
The petition additional said that charging an entry charge for the New Blue Space is a violation of superior court docket selections. Due to this fact, it requested the court docket to declare the MCI’s charge cost unlawful and null and void.
