SC moved against Nowshera land auction after school dislocation.

PESHAWAR -- A resident of Nowshera has moved Supreme Court of Pakistan against a recent judgment of Peshawar High Court and challenged the leasing out of a precious piece of land after dislocating a school from it in Nowshera Cantonment.

The resident, Amanullah Khan, has filed a leave to appeal petition in Supreme Court's Peshawar Registry, challenging the Feb 26, 2020, judgment of the high court through which his writ petition against the leasing out of the land allegedly to a political figure at much cheaper rate was challenged.

The petitioner claims that a school was functional in a building on the said land, but the building was vacated and the school was shifted to a rented building.

He said that the building on 32-marla land was auctioned in a clandestine manner so as to benefit a local leader of the ruling Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf.

The petition, filed through Advocate Shah Faisal Ilyas, contended that the judgment of the high court was against law, facts and record of the case, hence untenable.

Petitioner claims land auctioned in clandestine manner to benefit PTI leader

It added that the high court failed to appreciate the fact that the matter in hand was inquired by National Accountability Bureau (NAB), which reported misuse of authority, favouritism and loss to public exchequer.

The petitioner contended that since 1928 the building in question, situated at front of Nowshera Bus Terminal, was having a school.

He stated that initially the building was leased out to a school named Arya Girls School for 30 years and prior to that the building was used as a church.

After partition, he stated, the building was taken over by education department and Government High School No.2 remained...

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