The Lahore High Court has directed a civil court to announce its verdict in the Khokhar Palace demolition case in seven days. The court has decided to hold the hearing every day. Saiful Malook Khokhar, a PML-N lawmaker, has been told to submit property documents in the case. His brother MNA Afzal Khokhar has challenged in the high court the notice issued to them by the anti-corruption department. He claimed that the government is acting against the members of the Pakistan Democratic Movement.
Land grabbing: former PML-N minister arrested
Dastagir is accused of occupying prime land in Gujranwala
The department owns around 49,470 kanals of which over 10,000 kanals have been encroached by the land grabbing mafia.. STOCK IMAGE
LAHORE:
The Punjab Anti-Corruption Establishment (ACE) has booked former Federal Minister and leader of Pakistan Muslim LeagueNawaz (PML-N) from Gujranwala, Ghulam Dastagir Khan in illegal land grabbing case.
The case has been registered on a reference filed by Deputy Commissioner Gujranwala. Khuram has been accused of occupying a prime land of Tehsil Council Sadar Gujranwala and provincial government measuring up to one kanal 10 marlas since 1967.
In the reference filed by the DC Gujranwala, he has requested to DG ACE to start criminal proceedings against Ghulam Dastagir for illegally occupying precious state land and constructing Gulistan Cinema on the grabbed land without any building plan and government officers including Tahir Gujjar MO Plan