KARACHI, June 7: The City Nazim, Mustafa Kamal, on Wednesday ordered the suspension of two city government revenue officials for illegally allotting agriculture land owned by a villager in Keamari Town to an influential officer in connivance with the police.

A villager, Aijaz Solangi, had complained to the nazim, during his visit to Keamari’s villages, that his 16-acre agriculture land in Deh Mehendran, UC-8, whom he was a legal owner of, had been illegally allotted to an Anti-Corruption officer, Asghar Ali, by the city government’s mukhtiarkar and tapedar in connivance with the police.

He said the police had forcefully evicted him from his land.

The city nazim summoned the EDO Revenue, Saleh Faruqi, the mukhtiarkar and other revenue officials on the spot and ordered them to furnish him the land’s documents.

The examination of the documents proved Solangi's claim revealing that the illegal occupants had evicted him from his land and had deployed private guards there.

Taking notice of the situation, the nazim ordered immediate suspension of the accused Mukhtiarkar, Sattar Hakro, and the Tapedar, Aziz.

He also asked the DIG (Operations), Mushtaq Shah, on the phone to take action against the police personnel involved in the fraud and to provide protection to the poor villager's life and property.

Besides, the area SHO was told to arrest the private guards. However, the guards fled on seeing the nazim.Mr Kamal asked the villager to directly inform him at his office if anybody harassed him in future.

During his eight-hour-long visit of various Keamari villages, the nazim announced including the only school of Mubarak Village in the city government’s Model School Scheme and upgrading the area dispensary to a modern health unit.

Expressing concern over encroachments in the coastal localities, he issued directives for establishment of a revenue department office in Hawkesbay and for taking measures to check encroachments.

He said the residents of old Karachi villages were deprived of basic facilities and they were spending substandard lives.

He pledged that the city government would upgrade the villages and provide them with all basic amenities.

He warned all city government officials and staff to be dealt with strictly if they were found involved in creating encroachments in the area.

He said the revenue office to be set up in Hawkesbay would take action against encroachments in collaboration with the town administration.

The city government’s Works Committee Chairman, Mehmudul Hasan, Nazim Keamari Town, Humayun Khan, DCO Karachi Fazalur Rehman, EDO Revenue Saleh Faruqi, EDO IT Uttardas Sanjnani, EDO health Dr Khalid Sheikh, UC nazims and councillors accompanied the city nazim.

Meanwhile, the City Nazim, Syed Mustafa Kamal, directed the concerned officials to complete road works ahead of stipulated time and expedite the pace of work on all uplift projects including the Sohrab Goth Flyover.—PPI