LARKANA: Larkana police finally launched operation against illegal encroachments here on Sunday as SP Headquarter Asif Nawaz Baloch along with district police and traffic police removed encroachment from both sides of the road near Bughio House (Resham Gali) and Main Fish Market on the instructions of SSP Larkana Sarfraz Nawaz Shaikh.

Pushcart vendors, 3-wheel motorcycle chingchis and rickshaws were removed who had also established their unlawful parking causing tremendous traffic jams and problems for womenfolk and children. They warned them that if they again came and parked their vehicles there then legal action will be taken against them which include confiscation. The pushcart vendors were also issued final warning to refrain from bringing their carts here again or else cases will be registered against them.

SSP Sarfraz Shaikh told newsmen that they have been receiving public complaints about illegal encroachments in the city on massive scale which is causing frequent traffic issues due to which they carried out an operation in the Resham Gali and other areas today which shall continue till the menace is wiped out from Larkana.

People of other cities and towns including Ratodero, Naundero and others welcomed the move of the SSP and have also urged him to launch the same operation in their areas to remove chingchis parking places, pushcarts vendors, shopkeepers who have encroached the road from 10 to 15 ft and bikers who enter the bazaars massively but his police have done nothing to stop them which has become a menace specially for womenfolk besides creating hardships for the buyers.

It must be mentioned here that Assistant Commissioner, Larkana, Ahmed Ali Soomro has also been removing encroachments in the city but the same habitual encroachers again surface next day without fear of law after securing backing of influential political people who too are involved in creating problems of land grabbing and supporting them.