PESHAWAR, July 3: The city police have yet not paid the price of a piece of land to a widow, which they had occupied 16 years back and established Gulbahar Police Station over it, sources told Dawn on Wednes-day.

The police had taken illegal possession of one kanal commercial land of Sajida Begum, widow of Qazi Qayamud Din, in 1986 and despite the stay orders issued by the civil judge on  Sept 27, 1989, the land was included in the extension of Gulbahar Police Station, the sources said.

It is learnt that the widow was implicated in six cases to pressurise her for withdrawing from ownership, but she was exonerated from the charges.

On Oct 20, 1991, the then DIG of Peshawar range, Israr Mohammad Khan, in a letter to the then NWFP IGP and provincial home secretary, referred to the inquiry conducted by the DSP of Faqirabad, which stated that “Sajida Begum is deserving for the one kanal land as per revenue record Khasra No 471. The land is still registered in her name, but still is in possession of the police. On this piece of land the building of Gulbahar Police Station has been constructed.”

The DIG suggested that “the price of the land may please be assessed according to the market value and paid to her if she desires.”