FAISALABAD, Jan 5: The House Building Finance Corporation has accelerated the campaign of recovery of dues from the allottees of Allama Iqbal Colony and filed 29 more cases against ‘defaulters’.
The HBFC filed cases against 29 residents, including some widows of original allottees, claiming that they had failed to deposit their dues for the last two decades despite repeated notices. They are the ‘defaulters’ of Rs35,000 to Rs50,000.
About 20 years ago, the Faisalabad Development Authority had built Allama Iqbal Colony and allotted its one-room house to the dwellers of Katcha abadi of Factory Area. The FDA had obtained a huge loan from the HBFC for the construction of these quarters and pledged the files by violating all set rules.
Over 5,000 residents of this locality said they had not obtained any loan from the HBFC at any stage, but the FDA got their houses pledged to the HBFC just to cover its own negligence.
SEALED: D-Type Colony police arrested two cable operators and sealed their offices for screening obnoxious movies here on Sunday.
On receiving complaints, a police team conducted a raid on the main office of the Pakistan Cable Operators of Allama Iqbal Colony and found that blue films were being operated through cable system. Police arrested owner Anjum Ahmed and sent him to jail after registering a case against him.
In another raid on a shop on the Faisalabad-Samundri Road, the police team arrested cable operator Muhammad Tahir for screening porno films and Indian channels on his cable system. Police also booked him and sent him to jail after sealing his shop.
ARRESTED: Razaabad police on Sunday claim to have arrested 14 gamblers during the raid on a house and recovered thousands of rupees of stake money.
Acting on a tip-off, police raided the house in Razaabad and caught red-handed Sajjad Ahmed, Ashfaq, Amjad, Shafaat, Tahir, Arshad, Ijaz, Imran, Jamil, Umer Farooq, Imran, Khalid, Ramzan and Jamil Ahmed. Police also recovered Rs15,000 stake money and booked all the accused persons under the law.