Rs72b land, property retrieved from land grabbers

Lahore: Over  4979 kanals lands and properties of 454 citizens worth rupees 72.92 billions retrieved from land grabbers.
Capital City Police Officer Ghulam Mahmood Dogar said Lahore police also successfully managed to return rupees 8.5 crore of  118 affectees of a private housing society.
More than seven hundred accused criminals including land grabbers and goons were also arrested involved in illegal possession on citizens properties during last seven months, he added. Police crackdown against land grabbers has accelerated as Cantt Division Police in supervision of SP Cantt Sayyed Aziz retrieved around 42 kanal of agriculture land worth millions of rupees of a retired officers Zahid at Batapur area today. Accused  members of Qabza Mafia namely Azam, Ameer and Amjad have illegally occupied the land of the retired  citizen since year 2009 and had also damaged some structure on his land as well as stolen costly agricultural machines. FIRs in this regard were already registered in Batapur Police station. The retired citizen had tried hard on different plateforms to get possession of his land but failed. Ultimately the citizen submitted a written application at Anti Qabza Cell of Capital City Police Headquarters Lahore where related Committee members  including Police, Revenue, Overseas Pakistanis Commission, LDA and Cooperatives departments thoroughly checked the documented proofs as well as legalities and finally directed Lahore Police for action against the land grabbers. On the directions of CCPO Lahore Ghulam Mahmood Dogar, Cantt Division Police took prompt action and retrieved the possession from the accused party. The old citizen called on Commander Lahore Police Ghulam Mahmood Dogar in his office today and expressed his gratitude for provision of speedy justice and possession of his land. Commander Lahore Police Ghulam Mahmood Dogar said indiscriminate action has also been taken against notorious goons who, earlier pressurized simpleton people at their farm houses and Deras during their illegal Panchayat system by harassing citizens to accept their forced decisions pertaining to vested interests regarding properties. CCPO Lahore further said the attendance of notorious goons at police stations on regular basis has been made mandatory so that a permanent check on their routine activities could be made possible to refrain them from involving in any criminal activity. Ghulam Mahmood Dogar said Lahore is city of civilized and gentle people and he will not let any Badmash or land grabbers to harass and possess their lands and properties. He reiterated his pledge to free Lahore from Qabza Mafia and their facilitators with the cooperation of citizens.