18 ‘land grabbers’ booked

Published June 14, 2005

FAISALABAD, June 13: Factory Area police on Monday registered a case against 18 people, including two real estate dealers, for allegedly grabbing land of a primary school. Reports said Haji Naseeb Ahmed and Khalid Mehmood along with 16 other people entered the Government Primary School, Rehmania Mills Road, and allegedly demolished its building, boundary walls and grabbed the land.

Later, the school headmaster informed the police. Fearing the arrest, the alleged land grabbers fled from the scene.

Police have registered a case against 18 people with no arrest.

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