RAWALPINDI: The district administration has prepared a list of eight commercial and residential properties allegedly occupied by PML-N leaders, after it carried out an operation to recover 64 kanals of ‘state’ land from Senator Chaudhry Tanveer Khan last week.

Senator Khan has obtained a stay from the court of Senior Sessions Judge Asad Imran, and the district administration has been asked to appear in court on Jan 9.

PML-N’s Sumaira Komal has also submitted a resolution in the Punjab Assembly against the district administration for demolishing a boundary wall around the senator’s house. She said that the administration did not give 14 days’ notice before carrying out such an operation as it is supposed to do.

The senator’s son, Barrister Daniyal Chaudhry, told Dawn that the administration did not give them documents that prove the land in question was allocated for a highway.

List comes after operation to recover 64 kanals of ‘state’ land allegedly occupied by senator

“Our stance, that the 110 kanals of land is owned by my family for the last 100 years, is clear,” he said.

He added that they were “shutting between” the deputy commissioner’s office and the tehsil office for copies of documents on the basis of which the administration took action against their residential and commercial properties. Mr Chaudhry said he repeatedly tried to contact the deputy commissioner, but he was not available at his office.

Deputy Commissioner Saifullah Dogar told Dawn: “We will give all the documents to the court at the next hearing on Jan 9, about the action we took against the land included in the house and commercial properties of Chaudhry Tanveer, which is state land and allocated for a public road.”

He added that the district administration has made a list of land-grabbing cases to be recovered in operations next week. A total of eight properties have been detected so far, which belong to prominent individuals from Rawalpindi, he said.

“The provincial government has directed the district administration to retrieve all the land grabbed by the land mafia and zero tolerance will be shown to such people,” he said.

He said the list of illegal properties was made in two months, with help from the Rawalpindi Municipal Corporation.

He added that the names of property owners would not be disclosed until the operation.

Published in Dawn, January 9th, 2020