Pakistan, Oct. 13 -- The Supreme Court has upheld the eviction of five companies in Karachi, ruling that failure to pay advance rent as agreed and alterations that risk damaging a rented building's value or utility can constitute grounds for eviction.

A two-member bench comprising Chief Justice Yahya Afridi and Justice Muhammad Shafi Siddiqui dismissed the companies' petitions challenging Sindh High Court judgments, holding that there was no justification to interfere with the concurrent findings of the lower courts.

The petitioners included Universal Express (Pvt) Ltd, Al-Kiswa (Pvt) Ltd, Top Line Travels (Pvt) Ltd, Fazal-e-Rabbi (Pvt) Ltd and Executive Aviation (Pvt) Ltd. They had challenged rulings in favour of Karachi Properties Inv...