The Railway police managed to regain possession of a sprawling property from a serving DIG police after 14 long years on the orders ofthe Federal railway minister Khawaja Saad Rafiq. The bungalow, No. 218-B, is a 1,500square yards property situated on Adam Road, Railway Colony, Clifton Cantt. It was allotted to DIG ShahabMazhar Bhalli 14 years ago when he was posted as the Railway Police SP. Bhalli, however, was later transferred but refused to vacate the property. It was only when the apex court took notice of the matter that Rafiq ordered Railway IG Syed Ibn-e-Husain to get the property evacuated at the earliest. The IG assigned the task to SP Jamshed Hamid, who sought assistance from Karachi South police and conducted a joint operation to get the property vacated. The relevant railway superintendent also accompanied the team. “The main problem was that he was a serving DIG,” said Sohail Shaikh, the Railway Divisional Superintendent Technical. “We have tried to get the property vacated several times in the past but we were unable to because DIGBhalli had filed a petition for the stay order.” SP Hamid, who has now been allotted the bungalow, seemed happy. “I am from Punjab and was transferred to Karachi two and halfmonths back,” he said. “I was livingin a single room but I was ok with it since my family was not living with me but now I will call my family to Karachi.” At least 500 policemen from the Railway police, district South policeand railway employees were present at the time of the raid. “We went there with extra contingent as we expected resistance,” said district South SSP Nasir Aftab. “But fortunately we faced none and DIG Bhalli handed over the bungalow.”
Posted on: Fri, 02 Aug 2013 21:43:52 +0000
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