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Officials claimed they had done so as the samples of patients were inside the lab, and the hospital authorities too had given an undertaking to get the lab regularized. Ludhiana: MC officials sealed a lab of Dayanand Medical College and Hospital (DMCH) adjoining the hospital premises on Tuesday afternoon — as it was located in a residential area — but in the evening after four hours, they opened the seal. MC commissioner KP Brar said: “We have got an undertaking from the hospital authorities, and a personal assurance of depositing the due fee/fine, so we opened the lab. But sources revealed that officials had opened the seal under political pressure.The lab was established in a residential area without getting permission for a change of land use (CLU). MC had also served notices to the hospital around that time..