During its massive crackdown against plot mafia and land grabbers, the staff of the Estate Management Directorate of Lahore Development Authority retrieved a total of 20 plots worth millions of rupees, situated in different blocks of Johar Town, here, on Tuesday.
The LDA staff retrieved 16 plots, each measuring five Marlas in Block-C of Johar Town Phase-II. Illegal boundary walls had been constructed on plot Nos. 367 to 387 for grabbing these precious pieces of land. The LDA staff demolished these boundary walls for recovering these plots.
In another operation, the LDA staff retrieved four more plots, each measuring one kanal, bearing Nos. 39 B-Block, 659 B-Block, 524 E-Block and 525 E-Block. Illegal boundary walls constructed on these plots were razed for retrieval of the plots.
Meanwhile, LDA's drive against shanties and other illegal constructions in Mustafa Town was already underway and operation there would finish within a span of six days, information added.
Meanwhile, in another LDA operation undertaken during the day Estate Management Directorate Quaid-e-Azam Town of Lahore Development Authority retrieved three commercial plots situated in Civic Centre, Township after an operation against shanties that had been illegally set up in the area.