ISLAMABAD: The Supreme Court bench Tuesday barred Bahria Town Karachi from collecting any payment from allottees of plots.
During the course of proceedings regarding a case pertaining to Bahria Town, the court observed that the society had violated its orders by opening up a separate bank account to collect outstanding amount.
Addressing Bahria Town chief Malik Riaz, Chief Justice of Pakistan Mian Saqib Nisar said, "Charity work can not be done by bribing people." How charity could be made by occupying others land illegally, he asked.
To this, Malik apprised the court that he had bribed the people. He was building Bahria Town Karachi so that Pakistan could grow from a third world country to a first world country, he added.
When Malik said the society was doing religious as well as social works for the betterment of people, the CJP observed that how a religious obligation could be performed by illegal means as there was no space for such acts in Islam.
The CJP then directed Malik Riaz to deposit Rs 5 billion in the account of the Supreme Court as the money would be returned to the nation.
The bench also barred him from selling any of his assets till the decision of the case. He also got an undertaking from Malik Riaz for not initiating any new Bahria Town project till then and adjourned the case till June 27.
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