LAHORE: The Commercialisation Directorate Town Planning Wing of the LDA sealed six marriage halls, including Gracious, Sapphire, Mughal-i-Azam, Zouj and Noor Jehan, in the New Garden Town area here on Monday.

The Grand Marquee also came under the axe.

These halls had been constructed in contravention of the building bye-laws. The minimum plot size required for constructing a marriage hall was four kanals and two kanals of land had to be left vacant for parking vehicles.

None of these halls fulfilled these conditions. The owners had illegally set up these ventures after getting approved plans for constructing residences or office buildings at site.

Meanwhile, the staff of the Estate Management Directorate-II retrieved 20 plots, worth millions of rupees, of various sizes in different blocks of the Sabazazar Scheme.

These plots included seven plots, each measuring 10 marlas, in block A, one such plot in E block, seven plots of seven marlas and two of three and a half marla in block H-1, one plot of five marlas in block L and two plots, each measuring five marlas, in block M of Sabazazar.

Published in Dawn January 24th, 2017