ISLAMABAD: Government land
costing billions of rupees on the Murree Road has allegedly been allotted.
While widening the Murree Road in 1998-99, the then Punjab chief minister, who
also holds the post now [Shahbaz Sharif], had decided to allot alternate land
instead of financial compensation to some of the affected persons.
Working swiftly, the Highways Department first got transferred six acres of land
on the main Murree Road owned by the Agriculture Department in their own names
and then transferred it illegally to fake victims.
The Revenue department had also declared the allotment illegal six years back.
After probe, it was learnt that land was provided to Raja Abdul Latif without
any legal justification ignoring the legal claimant Zia Rashid.
Likewise, Raja Shafqat, son of Raja Mohammad Siddiq, was also allotted land
while the actual claimant, Mohammad Hashim Khan, son of Haji Manzoor Hussain,
was ignored. Two other real claimants Mohammad Usman and Jamila Akhtar were also
not included in the list.
A six-member committee consisting of officials of the Revenue and Highways
departments in the light of a detailed report of tehsildar Rawalpindi had ruled
that all bogus allotments may be cancelled and the land illegally allotted maybe
got vacated. The committee had also ruled that the genuine affected persons may
be given alternate lands elsewhere.