HARIPUR: The officials of Haripur tehsil municipal administration on Saturday sealed nine shops reportedly built in violation of lease deed on Western Circular Road.

According to Shoaib Khan, Tehsil Municipal Officer, one Ehsan ul Haq of Mohallah Darwesh had obtained the lease of about five marlas of TMAs land several years ago but he did not construct house and instead his heirs, after his death, constructed nine shops and had been paying Rs10 per square feet to the TMA while they were collecting thousands of rupees as monthly rent from the tenants.

The TMO said after the government’s instructions the record of illegal occupants and those having constructed buildings and shops on the TMA land in violation of lease or contract, was collected and as a first step, nine shops were sealed. He said the action was being taken against all the encroachers and those who were inflicting financial losses to TMA.

ALLEGED ROBBER HELD: Police claimed to have arrested an alleged outlaw wanted in different criminal cases.

Hattar police said on Saturday that the arrested accused, Seerat Din of village Bhedian, was involved in a Rs1.68 million robbery at a factory, a Rs850,000 heist at a filling station and a number of other cases, but he had been absconding for last few years.

On Friday evening while he was passing through the limits of Hattar police station on a motorbike along with an accomplice later identified as Hashim, he was asked by a police party to stop. But according to SHO Hattar, the alleged bandit opened fire at the police and attempted to flee, but when the policemen returned fire he fell from the bike after suffering a bullet shot in the leg.

The police shifted the accused to DHQ hospital where he was under treatment and his condition was out of danger.

Published in Dawn, October 7th, 2018