2,482 acres of state land retrieved in 48 hours

Rs4.93b is collective value of property recovered from encroachers

LAHORE:

Following the directives of Punjab Chief Minister Sardar Usman Buzdar, 2,482 acres of state land, valuing Rs4.931 billion, have been retrieved in different cities during the last 48 hours.

The authorities have also registered 32 FIRs. The official sources revealed that 763 acres of state land valuing Rs3.461 billion has been recovered and 18 cases have been registered in the last 24 hours. State land 58 acres valuing Rs967.5 was retrieved in Khanewal and six FIRs have been registered in Narowal while retrieving 239 Kanals of land valuing Rs27.6 million.

Another 400 acres of land valuing Rs80 million were recovered in Rajanpur. In an anti-encroachment operation in Layyah, 22 acres of land of Rs19.3 million were retrieved. Meanwhile, 1.5 Kanals of land valuing Rs3.3 million were seized in Jhelum and 49 acres of land worth Rs6 million were retrieved in Faisalabad.

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Eight FIRs were also registered against the suspects. Another six acres were retrieved in Sialkot worth Rs20 million. Along with it, a piece of four acres of land worth Rs7.2 million was recovered in Bahawalnagar and FIR has also been registered. In Mianwali, 33 acres of land worth Rs37.5 million were retrieved from squatters while 55 acres of land of Rs1.394 billion were recovered in Vehari and two cases are registered. In Rawalpindi, three-acre land of Rs30 million is retrieved and 20 acres of land of Rs50 million is recovered from illegal occupants in Okara.

An FIR has been registered while recovering 83 acres of land having a value of Rs100 million in Chiniot. Meanwhile, the CM has said action would be continued till the complete elimination of the land grabbers adding that those illegally occupying the state land do not deserve any leniency.

The government is following the policy of zero-tolerance and the state land will be secured from the land grabbers, he added