Amritsar Municipal Corporation removes encroachments in Maqboolpura

The estate wing of the municipal corporation (MC) has demolished an illegal restaurant which was built on the space of an old police check-post. The Police Commissioner had abolished a number of police posts in Amritsar a long time ago. After cops vacated the Maqboolpura police post, someone occupied its space and turned it into a makeshift restaurant.

Municipal Corporation Commissioner Gulpreet Singh Aulakh received a complaint in this connection. On the directions of Aulakh, Estate Officer Dharminderjit Singh reached the spot with his team yesterday evening. The team demolished a permanent structure of the restaurant outside the old police post and nearby encroachments. Aulakh said any encroachment on the MC land will not be tolerated. He said action would be taken as per the law against those who encroached the government land.

Today, on MC Commissioner’s orders, a team of the estate wing of the civic body took action against two shopkeepers selling building material on the Maqboolpura road. These shopkeepers had stored building material on the footpath and the road.

The Estate Officer said some goods of shopkeepers had been seized by the MC team. The shopkeepers had given in writing that they would remove encroachments on the footpath and the road within next two days, he said.