SADIQABAD, Aug 7: Hundreds of dwellers, who were forcibly ejected from kutcha abadis and the lands of Auqaf in Khanpur, took out a protest rally on Tuesday.

The procession comprising councillors, ladies and children marched on the roads and demonstrated in front of the tehsil council office. They said they had no resources to develop new dwellings, demanding their residential shelters back.

Later, Tehsil Nazim Haji Muhammad Murad Khan and union council Nazim and his deputy assured the protesters that they would fight for their (dwellers) rights.

The district council had recently announced that a ladies park, with an estimate of Rs2 million, would be constructed on the Auqaf lands.

DEPRIVED: A gang of swindlers has deprived residents of Rahim Yar Khan’s Iqbal Complex of hundreds of thousands of rupees on the pretext of providing them plots in Bosan Bund, Multan.

Dawn learnt on Wednesday that the gang had established camp office Rana Estate Developers at the Iqbal Complex in Rahim Yar Khan. They initiated scheme to provide plots to the local residents in Multan.

The swindlers had allegedly received hundreds of thousands of rupees and entertained applications for allotment. They had also extorted Rs10,000 from Advocate Abdul Khaliq.