Rawalpindi (Digital Post) Major crackdown against land mafia in Punjab<\/p>\n
The government has issued an (amendment) gazette notification \u2014
and in simple words, understand this:
illegal land occupation has now become a far more dangerous and costly crime than before.<\/p>\n
What major change has come?
Encroachment is now a strictly punishable offence. Illegal occupation can result in 5 to 10 years imprisonment, along with a possible fine of up to 10 million rupees. Occupation through forgery will also fall under the same category.<\/p>\n
Meaning: it is not just physically occupying land \u2014 fake documents can also directly lead to jail.<\/p>\n
Facilitators will not be spared
Now not only the occupier but also:
the helper, the patron, and the facilitator
can all be punished. This is an attempt to target the entire network of the land mafia.<\/p>\n
Special committee in every district
A powerful committee will be formed in every district, which will include: Deputy Commissioner (DC), DPO, Assistant Commissioner, and DCR.<\/p>\n
This committee will submit its report within 30 days of receiving a complaint.
In other words, an effort has been made to reduce years of delay in the name of paperwork.<\/p>\n
Most important step
Additional Session Judges will be appointed as Property Tribunals. Cases will proceed on a daily basis, and the tribunal will be bound to give a decision within one month.<\/p>\n
If a case is already pending in any court:
the applicant will request transfer from the same court.
However, this law will not apply to cases under hearing in the Supreme Court, Constitutional Court, and Lahore High Court.<\/p>\n
Against the tribunal\u2019s decision:
an appeal can be filed in the Lahore High Court within 30 days.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
Rawalpindi (Digital Post) Major crackdown against land mafia in Punjab The government has issued an (amendment) gazette notification \u2014and in simple words, understand this:illegal land occupation has now become a far more dangerous and costly crime than before. What major change has come?Encroachment is now a strictly punishable offence. Illegal occupation can result in 5 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":47554,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[54,37],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-47557","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-english-news","category-national"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailydigitalposts.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47557","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailydigitalposts.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailydigitalposts.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailydigitalposts.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailydigitalposts.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=47557"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailydigitalposts.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47557\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailydigitalposts.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/47554"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailydigitalposts.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=47557"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailydigitalposts.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=47557"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailydigitalposts.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=47557"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}