Rawalpindi: The Rawalpindi Development Authority (RDA) asked the city police to send personnel for action against illegal housing societies, as per a news report. The RDA Director General Rana Akbar Hayat, and the RDA’s building control wing has been conducting operations against illegal commercial and residential construction, as well as illegal housing societies. The RDA Director Admin and Finance Rao Atif Raza wrote to the City Police Officer, requesting that a head constable along with four constables be sent to the RDA to carry out enforcement operations.
The RDA spokesperson Mohammad Irfan told media that the civic body had declared a housing society on Chakri Road illegal and a team had gone to seal it, when it was met with resistance and forced to retreat. Therefore, the RDA has now sought help from the local police.
