LAHORE: Evacuee Trust Property Board (ETPB) Chairman Siddiqul Farooq says they have handed over video footage and still photographs to Nankana police to establish that Sardar Mastan Singh and his 25 to 30 people raised antistate slogans on Nov 25, last year.

Mastan is nominated in a first information report for disrupting rituals in Janamashtan of Gurunanak`s temple. Pakistan Sikh Gurdawara Parbandhak Committee (PSGPC) head Sardar Sham Singh had lodged an FIRagainst its former chief and his people under blasphemy and anti-state activities charges. Police had arrested him and also initiated a search operation in the area to arrest his accomplices. The PSGPC and ETPB deal with affairs of Sikh pilgrims in Pakistan.

A Lahore High Court division bench on Jan 5 had, however, released Mastan on bail.

`The witnesses of the case have got their statements recorded before the investigation officer, Nankana District Police Officer Shahzada Sultan told Dawn. He, however, denied the E TPB had provided the video footage of the pro-ceedings.

`Though the court accepts eyewitnesses` statements credible, it also considers video footage important,` he explained.

He said the policemen manning the stage had also heard Mastan`s speech and they said Mastan had used the word of government and not the state. He said that according to the policemen, Mastan said the government that could not give security to 15,000 to 20,000 people in Nankana, how it could protect the country of 150 to 200 million people.

`So we are also taking legal experts` opinion if the uttered words invoke section 123-A (of thePakistan Penal Code),` he said. The section defines of fence of condemning creation of the State and advocating abolition of its sovereignty.

He said the police and local administration had tackled the Nov 25 situation wisely. `I myself rescued a state minister, the ETPB chairman and other senior officials from the scene,` he said.

CRACKDOWN: The Walled City of Lahore Authority (WCLA) demolished unlawfully-constructed buildings and sealed various premises here on Thursday.

`During the last two days the building control section of the WCLA has demolished and sealedmore than six illegal constructions.

The high-rise columns of some buildings have also been demolished. The illegal basements have also been filled with soil,` a spokesperson for the authority said in a statement on Thursday.

She said that legal notices to these buildings` owners were also served.

The buildings that have either been demolished partially or sealed include Property Nos E-2 and E-3 in Shah Alam Market, F-402-403 inside Delhi Gate, F-1501 in Kashmiri Bazaar, F-1496 and F-1505 near Fatima guest house inside Shah Alam gate.