Lahore: The Lahore Development Authority (LDA) has retrieved eight kanals from illegal occupants in Johar Town, a news source reported. Sources close to the development said that three kanals were earmarked for a road and five kanals for a drain.
On December 16, the city administration launched an operation against illegal occupants and retrieved 1,000 kanals of land in the process. The operation was carried out in Finance and Trade Centre Block in Johar Town.
LDA, in collaboration with Saddar Division police, demolished makeshift huts and shanties. The encroached land measured around 1,000 kanals, where other structures had also been constructed.
The structures were part of the modus operandi of the land mafia which used to possess land by first building shanties and makeshift huts. The dwellers claim that they used to pay influential people rent for living there.
