TOBA TEK SINGH: In a second operation conducted by the Revenue Department on Tuesday on the direction of the Punjab Board of Revenue (BoR), a tehsil administration team, led by Assistant Commissioner Rizwanul Haq, retrieved another 25 public acres from the possession of village lumberdar Muhammad Saeed at Chak 405-JB.

A press release said that standing crops and the buildings on the land were also demolished.

Previously on Jan 4, hundreds of policemen took over the possession of farmland worth Rs2 billion in the same chak on the orders of the BoR.

The land was fraudulently registered in name of late Noor Mohammed and others in 1956 under a “grow more food scheme” introduced by the then government but a number of allotments were late proved fake but farmers remained occupants through stay orders.

The police retrieved the state land when Governor Chaudhry Sarwar ordered the district administration to go according to the decision of the BoR during his visit to his hometown Pirmahal on Jan 4 in the presence of all the elected representatives of the district.

Although some local PTI leaders were putting pressure on the district administration not to implement the board order but the district administration went ahead as per law.

ACCIDENT: A bus crushed to death a villager on Kamalia-Chichawatni Road near M3 interchange on Tuesday.

Rescue 1122 reported that Mubaraz Khan, 70, of Chak 270-GB, was crossing the road when a bus hit him. He received serious injuries and was shifted to the Rajana rural health centre where he succumbed to his wounds.

Also, mill labourer Muhammad Asif died when the bus he was traveling in was hit by another bus. He was returning to his house in Chak 399-JB from Faisalabad after work when the accident occurred.

He was standing in the bus door when the other bus hit him while overtaking. He was rushed to the district headquarters hospital where he succumbed to his injuries.

THEFT: Thieves took away cash and gold ornaments worth Rs2 million from a house in Jamia Madina street in Shorkot Cantonment in wee hours on Tuesday.

In Chak 715-GB, thieves broke the roof of a utility store and took away commodities worth hundreds of thousands.

Published in Dawn, January 13th, 2021