KOHAT: The demolition of an illegal market on the railways land in Jawaki Banda led to a brawl between special magistrate Quratul Ain Wazir and owner of the market as both produced ownership orders from court to each other.

However, the magistrate told the owner that his stay had been vacated by the Supreme Court of Pakistan and the railways had been authorised to reclaim its land.

During demolition of the market the magistrate told reporters that the price of the land was more than Rs4 million and the structure had been erected illegally.

Later, an excavator was called in which leveled the market in the presence of police. The five-hour-long exercise was supervised by the magistrate.

Ms Wazir said all encroachments on the railways land would be removed.

To a question, she said orchards on the government land near Jhandi Station and Bannu bypass would also be removed and warned the people not to construct structures on the railways property.

EXAM RESULTS: Boys of Cadet College Kohat (CCK) and girls of Iqra Public School and College got top three positions in the higher secondary school certificate (HSSC) examination results announced by Board of Intermediate and Secondary Education, Kohat, on Friday.

The CCK kept its tradition of grabbing top positions in the board examinations. The pre-medical student of CCK, Ibne Masud Mian stood first with 1,014 marks, Mohammad Hassan and Hashir Khan of the same college shared second position with 1,012 marks each.

The third position was shared by four students, two boys of CCK and two girls of Iqra Public School and College, with 1,010 marks each. They were Mohibur Rahman, Hamadullah Khan of CCK, Asiha Majid and Sheema Hamayun of Iqra school.

In pre-engineering group, Shariq Hameed of Oxford College, Chokara, Karak stood first by getting 986 marks, whereas Zarnosh Khattak and Sajid Sharif of the same institute got second and third positions with 985 and 979 marks, respectively.

In humanities group, Zehra Bibi of Government Girls Postgraduate College, Kohat, stood first with 899 marks. Shazia and Fiza Asghar of the same college got second and third positions by getting 897 and 896 marks, respectively.

Board chairman Ilyas Afridi gave away prizes to the position holders at a ceremony attended by parents and teachers.

Published in Dawn, July 27th, 2019