Railways Police retrieve 89 kanals encroached land worth Rs526mn

RAWALPINDI: The Pakistan Railways (PRs) Police have retrieved over 89 kanals encroached land including 610 marla commercial, 57 marla residential and 1120 marla agriculture worth Rs 526 million during 2019.

Talking to APP, Senior Superintendent Railway Police, Raja Zaheer Arshad informed that Railways Police on the directive of the High Court and special instructions of Federal Minister for Railways Sheikh Rashid launched a grand operation to retrieve encroached land in Rawalpindi division.

He said that strict action in accordance with the law was taken without discrimination against the encroachers.

To a question, he informed that in the first step, the authorities concerned carried out a detailed survey to identify the details of encroached land, occupied by individual encroachers and some government departments and then an anti-encroachment campaign was started by the Railways Police under the supervision of senior officers of Pakistan Railways, he said.