JEDDAH — The Jeddah Mayoralty has started dismantling buildings and fences that were built on encroached land covering an area of more than 5,000 square meters on the Red Sea waterfront in Jeddah's North Obhur. The mayoralty's move follows the revocation of around 110 title deeds that were issued in violation of the regulations. The Supreme Court recently revoked these illegal title deeds and issued orders to evacuate the properties involving these deeds and hand over the sites to the mayoralty. The properties which are being removed belonged to a legal person, who owned the land through an illegal title deed. The deed was among 110 deeds that were revoked by the Supreme Court through an order issued recently. Owners of these title deeds include princes, former ministers, businessmen and women, companies, government and private agencies, in addition to title deeds whose ownership is unknown. According to the informed sources, the revocation orders were issued by the Supreme Court after closely examining the title deeds and coming to the conclusion with substantial evidence that these documents were extracted illegally and not based on approved regulations and hence necessitated their cancelation. The revocation decision was taken after the completion of the entire judicial process in this regard. The sources pointed out that the Courts of Appeal detected legal and Shariah violations in the case of a number of title deeds. It took about two years to complete the exercise of examining and reviewing the canceled documents in view of the magnitude of the task through minutely checking the original transactions and old records.
