KARACHI: Pakistan Railways Karachi has got registered a FIR against alleged encroachers who on Tuesday turned the anti-encroachment operation into a violent clash that witnessed use of arms and stoning at Karachi Bunder yard commonly called as KBX yard, officials said.

The FIR number 346/2020 has been registered at Metha Dar police station under the sections 435, 324, 186, 353, 149, 148, 147 and 29RRA.

They said that the anti-encroachment operation was planned, with the assistance of district government, as per the directives of Supreme Court of Pakistan regarding complete retrieval of Right of Way (RoW) of Railways land from unauthorised occupants/ encroachers.

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