LAHORE: The law enforcement agencies have retrieved state land worth around Rs 12 billion from the illegal occupation of the influential personalities in Punjab.
According to details, the Lahore district administration conducted an operation to relinquish government lands. As per details, on the order of Prime Minister Imran Khan Government lands worth billions of rupees were relinquished.
Assistant Commissioner Raiwind Adnan Rashid was leading the action to relinquish government land during the anti-encroachment operation.
On Thursday, Adviser to the Prime Minister on Interior and Accountability Mirza Shahzad Akbar had said the law enforcement agencies had so far retrieved state land worth around Rs 200 billion from the illegal occupation of the influential personalities.
he said about 80 Kanal 4 marla commercial property valuing over Rs 3 billion was retrieved in the suburbs of Lahore.
Khokhar brothers, he said, had got transferred about 206 Kanal state land worth Rs 1.5 billion in their names through fake deeds. It was the same group against whom the Chief Justice of Pakistan had ordered action two years ago.
He said the Khokhar brothers were served notices prior to the operation. They had got a stay order, which was now vacated by the court. The land, which was now completely under the state’s possession, would be utilized for a public welfare project, he added.
The advisor said a petrol pump and CNG station built on the government land in the middle of Gujranwala city by Ghulam Dastgir Khan, father of Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) leader Khurram Dastgir Khan, had been demolished and turned into a public park.
Similarly, 1050 Kanal land was recovered in Kasur and 2400 Kanal held by another PML-N leader Daniyal Aziz in Sargodha, he added.
Likewise, he said, 5000 Kanal state land was retrieved from PML-N Senator Chaudhry Tanvir Khan in Rawalpindi. Moreover, around 27 Kanal commercial property that was rented out by the Senator to a private school, was also recovered.
