RAWALPINDI: Rawalpindi Municipal Corporation (RMC) and the City Traffic Police (CTP) on Wednesday launched a joint anti-encroachment operation in Raja Bazaar and its adjoining areas.

The RMC Chief Municipal Officer Shafqaat Raza directed the enforcement cell to conduct the operation in and around Raja Bazaar to clear the main markets of all kinds of encroachments for smooth flow of traffic.

Traffic police spokesperson said the CTP have picked up some 40 motorcycles and 20 cars through lifters and issued fine tickets to their owners, he said.

He said scores of other encroachments including tables, stalls, hand push carts and others goods were also removed by the traffic police.

He said that the CTO, while taking strict action on complaints about traffic jams in Raja Bazaar and its adjoining areas, had constituted a special squad tasking it to remove all the encroachments from the roads and facilitate the smooth flow of traffic.

He said the special squad comprised DSP Traffic City Circle Azmat Hayyat and In-charge Traffic City Sector Inspector Sarfraz along with lifter staff carried out anti-encroachment operation in Raja Bazaar, Iqbal Road, Bohar Bazaar, Bara Bazaar and Imperial Market.

CTO/SSP Mohammad Bin Ashraf, in a statement, said an operation is being conducted in this regard in Raja Bazaar and its adjoining areas to remove the encroachments to ease the traffic flow.

He said the special squad of traffic police had also been taking strict action against the illegal parking lots. He said the traffic police wanted to facilitate the road users by cleaning roads from encroachments.

Published in Dawn, January 31st, 2019