Collection spree: RCB seals 50 properties in main Saddar Bazaar

The owners had defaulted on property tax

RAWALPINDI: The Rawalpindi Cantonment Board (RCB) enforcement team in a crackdown against property tax defaulters has sealed 50 properties while anti-encroachment team confiscated five truckload goods of encroachers.

The civic body sealed the properties in main SaddarBazaar as their owners could not pay property tax amounting to Rs20 million for last five years, said RCB spokesman Qaiser Mahmood.

He said, the enforcement teams, on the directive of Cantonment Executive Officer Arslan Haider had accelerated ongoing operation against tax defaulters. He informed that the anti-encroachment team confiscated five truckload goods including counters, handcarts, tyres and other items from Golra Mor, Peoples Colony, Dhoke Syedan, Saadi Road, Kashmir Road, Saddar and other areas. The team also removed posters and banners from different areas.



Meanwhile, the Food Branch of RCB has issued 15 notices to food outlets for unhygienic and poor cleanliness conditions while 25 food samples were also collected from different restaurants, hostels and other fast food points.

The team imposed Rs140,000 on the rules violators. The food samples collected from different points have been sent to the lab for quality tests, he added. Raids on the food outlets would continue, he said.

Published in The Express Tribune, March 16^th, 2018.