KE's plea seeking cost to relocate underground cables dismissed.

KARACHI -- The Sindh High Court has dismissed an appeal of the K-Electric seeking from the provincial government the cost of relocation of its underground electric cables for reconstruction of a road in North Nazimabad.

A two-judge bench headed by Justice Mohammad Shafi Siddiqui turned down the intra-court appeal of the power utility filed against the order of a single-judge bench handed down in December.

The division bench upheld the order of single bench saying that the appeal was found to be devoid of merit.

It noted that the appellant remained duly entitled to agitate its monetary claim in the suit, but no case had been made out to restrain the infrastructure development project with respect to the road in the interregnum.

SHC maintains order of single-judge bench

'It is gleaned from the impugned order that the learned single judge apportioned greater weightage to the public interest of completion of the civic infrastructural project as opposed to the claim of a corporate entity seeking to secure an amount that it may become entitled to, should the final determination of the suit be rendered in its favour,' it added.

The KE in its appeal submitted that the provincial government was re-constructing a road on Shahrah-i-Noor Jahan from Abdullah College to Qalandria Chowk near North Nazimabad and in...