ISLAMABAD, Nov 6: Four persons, including the deputy chairman of Senate, on Saturday broke into a lodge of a woman parliamentarian in the Parliament Lodges to get it vacated, police sources told Dawn.

Senate Deputy Chairman Jan Mohammad Jamali was accompanied by CDA’s director for Parliament Lodges Mian Mohammad, Magistrate Saqib Majid and Senator Mohammad Humayun Khan as they forcibly entered the lodge, 105-J, which is under the use of PML-Q’s Marvi Memon.

According to a Senate Secretariat letter issued on March 14, 2009, the lodge was allotted to Senator Humayun Khan. Shortly afterwards, Nisar Memon, Marvi’s father, came over to the lodge and sought time to vacate it honourably. After his assurance, the deputy chairman and three others left the lodge.

Sources said the lodge was allotted to Mr Memon, who retired as senator in 2009. However, Ms Memon continued to use it as her office.

The lodge in the Senate’s pool has to be allotted to a senator, and not an MNA, sources said. They added that as Ms Memon had a residence in Islamabad, she cannot ask for allotment of lodge in the Parliament Lodges. Several notices were served on Ms Memon to vacate the lodge but she did not, sources said.

However, Ms Memon told Dawn that the lodge was allotted to her in 2008 by the National Assembly Secretariat. But the Senate Secretariat allotted it to the senator last year, who, she alleged, tried to occupy it with his gunmen.

She said she registered a complaint with the speaker, and claimed that a meeting between Deputy Speaker National Assembly Faisal Karim Kundi and Senate Deputy Chairman Jamali resolved the matter in her favour.

She said the allotment letter was given to her in 2008, adding that she was using the lodge with the permission of deputy speaker.

The legislator would lodge a complaint with the prime minister, and “definitely I will also lodge complaint with police against them.”