KARACHI: Residents of Luckhnow Cooperative Housing Society Limited, Korangi are target of corrupt officials of Registrar Cooperative Societies under Sindh government.  

Residents were waiting for elections of Lucknow Society which had been delayed for past three years. Cooperative Department instead of holding elections has become facilitator in providing possession of society’s assets and members’ plots through fake private administrators.

According to informed sources incumbent administrator Muhammad Shakeel has handed over society office to his accomplices belonging to land mafia namely-Wasif Ali, Akram Bihari, Maruf Loan and Raja Asif. They were involved in preparing fake files of plots and issuing unlawful verification of these files on large scale. As result, original owners were facing serious difficulties in obtaining justice from police and courts. Society members have been demanding transparent election under supervision of true and genuine officials of Department for long time. However, Cooperative Department was reluctant to accept this demand due to political interference by unscrupulous elements of Sindh government, sources added. Land grabbers’ mafia also violated status-quo order issued by Sindh High Court, sources disclosed. Instead, series of false FIRs were registered by police against petitioners and complainants to prevent them from filing contempt of court applications.

According to sources, Muhammad Shakeel, private administrator of Lucknow Society, imposed by Registrar Office with connivance of influential officers of Sindh government erected boundary on one amenity plot ST29 of society worth Rs 100 million and handed it over to land mafia. In CP D-4954/2017, there was an status-quo standing upon all amenity plots of society including ST29 and other ST2,5,6,7,8,9,22,27 etc. Despite informing about SHC stay orders to all parties including police by petitioners, no action was taken to stop this encroachment. Rather, petitioners and complainants were successively implicated in false FIRs No. 1121/24 and 1126/24 by Korangi Industrial Area Police Station on behalf of agents of land mafia.