Tenants registration: Police clamp down on hotels, property owners

Special data collection desks at police stations demanded.


APP January 31, 2015
Police have now registered the cases. PHOTO: ONLINE

RAWALPINDI: Police have registered cases against 38 hotels and property owners for not providing their tenants record to the police in Rawalpindi.

The cases have been registered under the Punjab Information of Temporary Residence Ordinance 2015, which bounds all owners not to rent out their properties without registering their tenants with the relevant police station.

City police station registered FIRs against hotel owners Mushtaq, Waqas, Qadeer, Akash, Tajamal and Abbas Ali while Gungmandi police registered cases against Hamad, Zakar, Nazir Ahmed, Siddique, Jahangir, Syed Zameen, Raza Ullah and Shakoor.

Similarly, Pirwadhai police registered FIRs against hotel owners identified as Abbas Khan, Yaseem, Israr, Ghazanfar, Usman, Rafaqat, Sarfraz Khan, Muhammad Alam, Muhammad Safeer, Ishtiaq Zahoor, Shehzad and Fazal as they had not submitted details of tenants and guests to the police.

Waris Khan police booked Noor Hussain, Riazud Din, Mushtaq Khan, Abbas, Altaf, Waqar and Nadeem Shehzad under the same law. Two cases were registered against Majid and Zaheer in Banni police station while Sadiqabad police registered cases against Farooq Abbasi, Munir Hussain, Rashid Mahmood and Usman Javed.

Gujar Khan police lodged FIR against a hotel owner Khurram Shehzad for the same reasons.

The police have intensified campaign against the property owners not registering their tenants with the police. The drive is part of the National Action Plan

Under the law, details of new tenants must be provided to the police station within 24 hours of giving possession of the property.

The real estate agents and hotel managers, however, have complained that police have not established proper data collection desks at the police stations. They said they were willing to cooperate with the police but demanded that police too facilitate them in the registration process.

Hotel and guest house administrations are bound under the law to provide details to the police within three hours of check-in time. Property dealers are to submit the information about the deals to the police within 48 hours.

Published in The Express Tribune, February 1st, 2015.

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