LAHORE, March 11: The Ravi Town administration started on Sunday demolishing a seven-marla plaza whose owner had illegally included a portion of the historic old wall close to the Kashmiri Gate into the building.

Ishaq, the owner of the building, resisted the move, but a police contingent accompanying the demolition staff foiled his attempt.

Town municipal officer Agha Humayun said the complete demolition of the plaza would take a couple of weeks. The TMA has already rejected the map and drawings of the edifice spanning over 1.75 kanal submitted by Ishaq.

The Supreme Court took a suo motu notice of the illegal building damaging the historic wall and ordered action against all such illegal structures in 12 weeks.

Eighty-man Ravi Town staff with bulldozers unsealed the building and started demolishing it.