The Sindh High Court on Thursday inquired after the persistent blockage of Zaibunnisa Street, past REX Centre and upto Avari Towers.
The Sindh Traffic Police has been ordered to submit a report on the matter after a petition was brought to it regarding the permanent closure of the road.
Petitioner Irfan Aziz claimed that the traffic police have shut the Avari Tower road and leased it to a contractor for private parking. It has been stipulated that the traffic police receives Rs400,00 for this act.
The petitioner further claimed that the police have also handed over Raja Ghazanfar Ali Road (Panorama road) to the parking mafia for Rs300,000, the lawyer claimed.
He said that the SM Law College road, the road in front of Empress Market, Sindh Assembly road and Kamal Ataturk Road have also been shut down for traffic.
He argued said due to the closure of major roads, traffic jams have become a norm.
Chief Justice Ahmed Ali M Shaikh asked the traffic authorities to justify the closure of the Avari Tower road through the law.
“In this city, cars travel bumper to bumper and on top of that you have shut down major roads in the city,” the chief justice remarked.
SP Traffic told the court that the Avari Tower road was shut down to reduce traffic jams. The court then directed the traffic authorities to submit a detailed report on these closures.
The next hearing on the petition will be held on September 22.
