Islamabad - The Banigala police on Wednesday booked several persons including an Islamabad police official for offering resistance, threatening with dire consequences and damaging government property as a team of enforcement directorate of the Capital Development Authority (CDA) along with police party reached there to carry out operation against illegal constructions.
According to details, a team consisting of the staff of the enforcement directorate of CDA and Islamabad police officials reached Dhok Elahi Buksh in the Banigala areas of the federal capital. As soon as the team started operation against illegal constructions, one Ansar who was later known to be an Islamabad police official appeared over there and offered resistance to the team. Holding a pistol in his hand, the accused threatened the enforcement team of dire consequences in case they continued the operation.
The FIR# 5/15 registered with the police station said that some 15-20 persons gathered on the scene within no time as Ansar invited them to attack the CDA officials and the police party. They attacked the government officials and forced them to stop the anti-encroachment operation. They tortured the officials and also broke windscreen of a government vehicle (GF-068). The enforcement team has had to leave the spot without removing the illegal constructions. The FIR has been lodged on the report of Assistant Director CDA Muhammad IQbal Mughal who had sought action against the culprits.
It has been a routine for the encroachers in the capital city to resist whenever the authorities start action to remove illegal encroachments and Wednesday’s case is an example of the same.
Meanwhile, on the directions of Chairman CDA Maroof Afzal, Capital Development Authority (CDA) continued its anti-encroachment campaign. It was claimed in a statement released by CDA on Wednesday.
 According to the details, the enforcement directorate of the authority carried out an operation in Muslim Colony and demolished one (01) illegal newly constructed room and one (01) boundary wall while one (01) boundary wall constructed illegally in front of a restaurant in Said Pur Market, Sector G-7, was also demolished.
During another operation, enforcement staff stopped illegal excavation work in front of residential houses in street 7 of sector F-10/3 and confiscated excavator machine which was consequently handed over to Shalimar Police Station. Similarly, during other operations, teams of enforcement directorate demolished one kiosk on GT Road near Sara-e-Kharboza, one newly constructed room in Katchi Abadi sector I-11, one room in Katchi Abadi sector H-9, one illegally constructed boundary wall in street 28, sector I-9/1 and one (01) boundary wall in Jhnagi Saydian was also demolished.
According to the claim of CDA, two illegally established car parking places, one in Abbasi Market, F-8, and one in G-6/4, were also removed. These parking places were causing disturbance in traffic flow. Moreover, during anti-encroachment operations in Markaz G-10, along the service road I-10/1 and along the loop of Khana Pul Bridge, the enforcement staff removed encroachments and confiscated four (04) trucks of encroached material.
Meanwhile, the officials of CDA also visited the Aabpara Market and met the traders’ representatives. During the meeting the deputy director general asked the traders to cooperate with CDA in its anti-encroachment drive.