LAHORE: A team of the Lahore Development Authority`s Directorate of Estate Management-1 faced on Tuesday a massive resistance from a number of illegal occupants after it reached Johar Town`s K-Block to retrieve its land from their possession.

The two-hour operation turned to be a battlefield after the team started razing structures unlawfully built on 10 plots (five marla each) linking the border line of Rasoolpura village.

The occupants pelted the LDA team with stones and bricks, injuring some of the police personnel present there to deal with the law and order.

The occupants also staged a protest demonstration, accusing the LDA of demolishing their houses unlawfully without any notice.

They also chanted slogans against the government and LDA.

According to an LDA official heading the team, a case had also been registered by the police against many people for not only occupying the state land but also attacking the officials.

`When we reached there and started demolition, they attacked us, resultantly two police personnel received injuries,` Muhammad Sabir, LDA`s senior estate officer, told Dawn.

He said as many as 10 occupants were also arreste d by police on the spot. The operation was successful as all unlawfully built structures were razed and the plots retrieved.

Talking to Dawn, LDA Director Akbar Nakai warned the illegal occupants in Johar Town to either vacate the state land orface such operations in the near future.

WASA: Director (Education Monitoring) Abdullah Faisal has directed Wasa officials to check all tubewells installed in Samanabad Town within two days and stop leakage of water in order to prevent possible breeding of dengue larvae.

Presiding over a meeting at Samanabad Town, he also sought intensifying the in/ outdoor dengue surveillance in the areas.