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Coop housing society members should have only 2 terms: SHC

Staff Report

KARACHI: The Sindh High Court has asked the Sindh government to get approval from the Supreme Court endorsing only two terms for the elected members of a cooperative housing society.

The SHC felt this was needed given the increasing number of litigations and complaints it has been receiving about cooperative housing societies in Sindh. On Saturday, a division bench comprising Justice Munib Ahmed Khan and Justice Pir Ali Shah was seized with the hearing of constitutional petition on the Saharanpur Cooperative Society. The petition concerns the alleged double membership, a dispute over the second phase of the society, entitlement to plots etc. and has been pending for a while.

According to the order available Saturday, the bench, noting the irregularities and controversies over the plot allotments said that apparently, “several persons are involved in the situation, which has been cropping up in several other societies’ matters and is causing alarm as there is a daily hue and cry about land grabbing in societies as well as mismanagement”.

In such a situation, it is high time that the government take some prohibitory measures to remove all these inconveniences and hardship for the societies’ members and keep the cause of cooperatives intact, the bench observed, noting that malpractices and corruption in societies is “because of the management of the cooperative societies is continuing for a longer period and in some hands without any check”.

With these observations, the bench ordered the Sindh Minister for Cooperation to appoint an honest official as Administrator of the Sahranpur Cooperative Housing Society. The Administrator so appointed was also directed by the SHC bench to scrutinize the membership and pave the way for new elections within four months from the day he is appointed.

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