Conversion of recreational park: LHC adjourns hearing of petition to July 12

The Lahore High Court (LHC) adjourned to July 12 the hearing of a petition challenging the proposed conversion of recreational park at Lahore Press Club Journalist Housing Scheme, into a residential area inducting 295 new members, as the parties counsel were not present here on Friday.
The petition was moved by a senior journalist Din Muhammad Dard who submitted that the elected body of Lahore Press Club had distributed forms among new members to provide them plots in the parks, which is in violation of the law. Counsel said that according to law once land if allocated for developing a park for the residents of the colony couldn't be shifted to any other purpose.
He submitted that adjacent to existing housing scheme private land is lying vacant from which acquisition of 581 Kanals 16 marlas land had not only been proposed for phase-II of housing scheme but initial notification under section 4 of Land acquisition Act has also been issued in May 2007.