RAWALPINDI: On Thursday, the Lahore High Court Rawalpindi bench judge Justice Mirza Waqas Rauf barred the Capital Development Authority (CDA) from acquiring 1,200-kanal of land on Chak Belli Road at Losar in the suburb of Rawalpindi for dumping the capital’s waste.
This decision was made after six petitions were filed by three brick kiln owners and four citizens of the neighborhood.
They argued that there was already a waste dumping ground spread over 1,200-kanal at Losar to dump Rawalpindi’s waste and that the high court had ordered its removal.
As per the details, the Rawalpindi administration has allowed the CDA to acquire 1,200-kanal to dump the capital’s waste.
The court issued the directives on petitions challenging the Rawalpindi administration’s notification, allowing the CDA to acquire the land and dump the capital’s waste at Losar.
The court also summoned the head of the Rawalpindi Solid Waste Management Company to the next hearing.
The CDA had to postpone the public hearing seeking objections regarding the dumping of the capital’s waste at Losar after the Punjab Environment Protection Department objected to the hurriedly called public debate.
According to the petitioners, the construction of dumping grounds on 2,400-kanal for both Rawalpindi and Islamabad will further increase infectious diseases including throat, ear, stomach, and eye ailments in the entire area.
They said that instead of removing the existing dumping site, the Rawalpindi administration has allowed the CDA to acquire 1,200-kanal to dump the capital’s waste.
The high court accepted six petitions filed in this regard for hearing and issued notices to the CDA chairman, the Islamabad chief commissioner, the Rawalpindi commissioner and deputy commissioner, and the Punjab government seeking their replies on April 10.
The court has ordered the removal of the existing dumping site and to shift it to Mandira Road, where the Rawalpindi administration had acquired 1,200-kanal of land.
The PTI government had approved removing the dumping ground spreading on 1,250-kanal at Losar and moving it to Mandra–Chakwal Road.
However, the current Rawalpindi administration decided against the order of the high court and allowed the CDA to dump the capital’s waste at the current dumping site.
It’s very surprising, Lahore High Court has already passed the order against the dumping, and Rawalpindi Administration allowing the CDA to dumping the Capital’s waste at the current dumping site , which is not understood,
In the light of above news we can say Rawalpindi Administration is ignoring the order of Lahore High Court.