LAHORE – Pakistan’s top court has suspended the ruling of the Lahore HighCourt (LHC) in the Ravi Urban Development Plan case and allowed the PTIadministration to continue work on the flagship project.
Reports in local media said the apex court has suspended the LHC’s verdictof declaring the River Ravi Urban Development Project (RRUDP) illegal.
SC bench was hearing appeals against the cancelation of themega-development project that was declared ‘unconstitutional’ by a lowercourt on January 25 as the project lacked a master plan.
Earlier, the court reprimanded the Punjab government’s legal team forappearing before the bench in the case unprepared.
The development comes after Prime Minister Imran Khan said that theprovincial government will approach the top court over LHC’s order ofdeclaring the project illegal.
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Meanwhile, Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf Senator Faisal Javed shared a tweettoday and termed the SC’s decision ‘landmark’.
“A much-needed project for the country. It will be a modern city which willbe constructed at par with Dubai and Malaysia and will expand vertically,”he wrote on Twitter.
Last week, Justice Shahid Karim passed orders to immediately halt itsconstruction saying that Section 4 of the Ravi Urban Development AuthorityAct, 2020, is against the constitution.
