FIR lodged against owner of illegal housing scheme

RDA spokesperson says he was marketing unapproved project

RAWALPINDI:

Rawalpindi Development Authority (RDA) has lodged an FIR at Saddar Baironi police station against the owners of an illegal housing scheme named 'Ruden Enclave.'

According to a RDA spokesman, Metropolitan Planning and Traffic Engineering Directorate (MP&TE), RDA on the directives of the Director General Muhammad Saif Anwar Jappa lodged FIR against the owners named Rahimuddin and Usman Shahid.

He said that the sponsors were also warned to immediately stop marketing illegal housing schemes. The owners of the illegal housing were illegally advertising the project which was not approved. The housing society was also running a social media campaign for publicity of the project, using pictures of a meeting with the commissioner Rawalpindi Division, he said, adding RDA enforcement squad was sent for an operation against the housing scheme but, the representatives of the illegal housing scheme presented a stay order.

The spokesman said the illegal housing scheme was misleading the public as it's not an approved project. He added that the RDA on the special instructions of the DG had advised the citizens not to invest in illegal and unauthorised housing schemes. The citizens should check the status of the housing projects at RDA's official website www.rda.gop.pk, he added.

The official said the owners of illegal housing schemes were misleading the public through ads. The Planning Wing had also requested the FIA to take legal action against the illegal and misleading advertisements of the illegal housing schemes.

Published in The Express Tribune, September 11^th, 2023.