LAHORE, Aug 18: Harbanspura police on Monday arrested four people, including the driver of a magistrate, for allegedly occupying a plot in the Journalists’ Colony and registered a case against them.

According to a handout, the Lahore Press Club secretary-general and some journalists complained to SSP (operations) Chaudhry Shafiq that magistrate Abdul Ghafoor, posted in Gujranwala, was trying to illegally occupy some plots in the colony situated at the city canal in Harbanspura.

The magistrate could not succeed in his efforts so far, but now his driver, Muhammad Boota, and three accomplices were present at a journalist’s plot in the colony in an attempt to occupy it.

The SSP immediately ordered the Harbanspura SHO to investigate the matter who reached the colony along with subordinates and found Boota and his fellows constructing a boundary wall on a plot.

The police apprehended Boota, Aamir, Emanual Masih and an unidentified man and registered a case against them under sections dealing with illegal occupation.