TOBA TEK SINGH: Police and health authorities have been wrangling over the ownership of 10 marlas located near the railway underpass in the Gobindpura locality.

The Health Department set up a maternity and child healthcare centre (MCHC) on the land in 2013 which is actually owned by the federal government which for several decades remained under the possession of CIA police staff. The land was later allotted to the police department by the federal government in 1988.

MCHC in charge Assia Zafar wrote to the health executive district officer (EDO) that she was present in the centre on July 11 when a local man, Husain Ahmad, along with 11 policemen came there, pushed her and her staff out of the centre and locked the building.

She sought registration of a case against the policemen and Husain Ahmad.

EDO Dr Nawaz Ranjha forwarded the application toDistrict Coordination Officer Waqas Alam who directed Assistant Commissioner Wasif Bashir Khokhar to retrieve the land. Mr Khokhar got retrieved the centre.

Sources said that earlier, a retired policeman, Ashraf Bhatti, lived in the place from 1998 to 2012. In 2013, the then assistant commissioner gave the property to the health department where the health department started the MCHC.

District police chief`s media coordinator Shahbaz Virk said five marlas were already under the possession of the police department and the dispute between police and health departments was over the remaining five marlas.

He said the matter was in the notice of higher authorities and it would be resolved.

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He said the transformer would be installed by July 17 for which several hours power shut down would be observed in the city and surroundings.