A man has sought help of the chief justices of Supreme Court and Lahore High Court against Sheikhupura police, saying that police are trying to grab his house in connivance with the land grabbers. Addressing a press conference, Rana Muhammad Shareef, a resident of Ghangh Road of Sheikhupura, said he had appealed to the CJs to take notice of Sheikhpura DPO Sarfraz Ahmad Virk and his subordinates’ connivance with land grabbers. He said the lawmen threatened to grab his five-marla house he purchased two years ago. Shareef said the deal was sealed for Rs3 million and he has paid Rs2.4 million so far. Before rest of the amount was paid, the police lured the seller into backing off the deal, he said. He added that though a court of law granted him stay, police were pressurising him to vacate the house. He told the media that the case was pending in the court of Sheikhupura Civil Judge Aashi Azmat who stayed possession of the house in his favor on January 9 but the A Division Police has been asking him to vacate the house. He cited the raiding cops as saying: “The DPO ordered you to vacate the house.” He said he was ready to pay the amount but the respondents had starting threatening him after they felt that the rate of the house he bought from them had gone high. He showed photos of some posters wherein police have been praised for retrieving land from the land mafia. He said that policemen themselves got these posters displayed in the city. He claimed though many residents had been deprived of their properties, they never dare challenge police because of fear of the law enforcement. “They (police) have been threatening to kill me,” he said and appealed to the chief justices to take notice of matter y. –Staff Reporter