Railways retrieve 89 kanals encroached land worth Rs 526 mln

RAWALPINDI, Mar 17 (APP):The Pakistan Railways (PRs) Police retrieved over 89 kanals encroached land including 610 marla commercial, 57 marla residential and 1120 marla agriculture
worth Rs 526 million during last two months.

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 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.