Improvement Trust officials, dwellers trade barbs during encroachment drive

Chandigarh | Tuesday | 15th October, 2019

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Tribune News ServicePatiala, October 14High drama prevailed at a house in the Sri Chand Colony in Sundar Nagar, when a team of Improvement Trust officials reached the site during an encroachment drive. The inhabitants of the ‘illegally’ constructed house claimed that they have all the relevant documents and also alleged that they have paid bribes to a number of officials of the trust. A senior official, on the condition of anonymity, said the trust has given them time to present relevant documents in three days. We have paid bribe to them (officials) on a number of occasions,” a dweller said. When contacted, a senior official of the trust, on the condition of anonymity, said, “Those living in the house are encroachers..