FAISALABAD: The district administration sealed over 100 shops rented by a private hospital on Gulberg Road here on Thursday and appointed the EDO (Health) as custodian of the hospital.

Assistant Commissioner (City) Shahrukh Niazi said the National Hospital, a private entity, had been established illegally on 20 kanals of state land and the hospital management had encroached upon four more kanals for shops.

He said all shops had been sealed adding that only shops having medical stores had been spared.

The Lahore High Court had in 2009 directed the district government to take control of the land and possession of shops.

Mr Niazi said all the money taken by the hospital administration as rent would be recovered from it under sections 81 to 88 of the Land Revenue Act.

He said the EDO (health) had been appointed as custodian of the hospital and a committee would be constituted to look into the issue.

“Shopkeepers will be allowed to resume their businesses if they provide evidence that they have been depositing the rent with the national kitty,” he said.

Published in Dawn, July 31st, 2015

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