JHANG City News

Land allotment process to Jammu and Kashmir refugees

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JHANG: On the orders of the Punjab chief minister and the chief secretary, the district administration has geared up the land allotment process to Jammu and Kashmir refugees, which had been pending since 1965 in the district, said Additional District Collector Babar Rehman.

Talking to The News here on Saturday, he said that the government had introduced a special scheme to allot a piece of state land to the Jammu and Kashmir refugees settled in the country in 1965. According to the policy, each refugee family had a right to get allotment orders of 100 kanal of state land, he added. He said that when he took the charge of his office, he found that 1,100 allotment cases were pending. He said that he had fixed one day (Thursday) for processing the pending cases through a one-window operation. About 100 cases had been finalised and the remaining belonging to 18-Hazari and other tehsils would soon be decided, he added.

BLIND TRIPLE MURDER SOLVED: DPO Humayun Masood Sindhu has said that police had solved the blind triple murder case and arrested a killer.

Addressing a press conference here on Saturday, he said that Sadr police had recovered the bodies of Nazir Ahmad, his wife Salamat Bibi and their disabled son Muhammad Boota at Mukhiana village last month. He said that a special investigation team under the supervision of Additional SP Adil Memon was constituted, which succeeded to arrest Musawar Imam, son-in-law of the deceased couple, who confessed the crime. On his pointation, police recovered the axe used in the triple murder, the DPO added. The accused told police that he wanted to shift to another village with his wife but she refused, saying that she wanted to remain in the same village to take care of her old father, mother and disabled brother.