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Anti-encroachment drive spurs riots at Teen Hatti

KARACHI: Riots erupted at Jahangir Road after a joint-team of the City District Government Karachi (CDGK) and Sindh Auqaf and Revenue departments launched an anti-encroachment drive at Teen Hatti in Jamshed Town on Saturday afternoon. During the riots, angry protesters torched a dumper of CDGK, damaged two cars and pelted passing vehicles with stones, suspending traffic for hours. A heavy contingent of law enforcers had been called to the scene to ease the tense situation and remove the encroachments surrounding the shrine of Baba Noori Shah. CDGK officials said when the joint-team reached the shrine to remove the encroachments around it, encroachers started creating a law and order situation. They said that around 75 percent of encroachments were removed. Police officials said that they arrested some nine troublemakers following the rioting and added that no case had been registered so far. In a similar incident, a police constable of Sohrab Goth police station was wounded when armed men opened fire at a police party that tried to evacuate a occupied land in Teachers Housing Society on Sindh High Court’s orders in Scheme 33 within the limits of Sohrab Goth police station. Police officials said that some 50-armed men opened fire on the police and also pelted them with stones. Resultantly, a police constable Mohammad sustained a bullet injury while DSP Iftikhar Lodhi was also injured by pelting of stones. The injured police constable was rushed the to Abbasi Shaheed Hospital where his condition was stated to be out of danger. Later, the police took both the parties involved in dispute of land to Sohrab Goth police station where negotiations between them were underway. Till the filing of this report, no FIR had been lodged, while officially, no arrests had been made by the police in connection with the attack on them. staff report

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