Mazar committee men besiege law enforcers

A police team was surrounded by the supporters of Shariful Islam Jinnah, a member of Mahasthangarh Mazar Development Committee, when the law enforcers went there on Monday to stop construction of structures at the reserved archaeological site in violation of a recent High Court order.
Receiving information that Abdul Hannan, an inhabitant of Mahasthangargh reserved area, has started construction of structures on a land at the site, Shibganj police led by Officer-in-Charge Abu Mokaddem Ali set out for the area at noon.
When they reached there, Jinnah's supporters, including Hannan, surrounded the policemen and kept them confined to the area for one and a half hours.
They released the policemen at the instruction of Jinnah at around 1:30pm.
Admitting to the incident, Jinnah said some locals were constructing structures on the land as it belongs to them.
Locals have already constructed several structures on some lands in the reserved area, claiming those as their own.
A general diary (GD) was lodged with Shibganj Police Station.