LAHORE - The Lahore Development Authority (LDA) is likely to get LDA-owned flats vacated from illegal occupants during its on-going movement against encroachment and illegal housing schemes, The Nation learnt here on Sunday. Sources revealed the LDA authority would embark upon comprehensive operation against illegal occupants of the LDA flats in upcoming days. The sources informed that all the departments concerned had started good effort to collect data regarding all the LDA flats located in different places. Separate lists were also being prepared to identify the influential people of the area and had occupied the LDA flats illegally, the sources disclosed. Following the preliminary information, some LDA official and police personnel had been found involved in the illegal occupation of the LDA flats. According to data available regarding the LDA flats in Model Town 'N' block around 30 flats are illegally occupied over the last many years. More than six LDA officers, three policemen and two unknown persons continue to occupy these flats since long. As per details, 48 C is occupied by Ch Abdul Rehman, 60 C by Asiya Banoo, 71 A by Rashida and Manzoor Hussain, 73 B by Khalid, 83 C by Liaqat Ali, 92 B by Liaqat Aziz, 94 C by Rizwan, 97 C by Haji Imdad Ali, 108 C by Pak Standard Academy, 113 C by Rakhshanda Bibi, 137 B by Raja Watto, and Muhammad Munir, 168 D by Fouzia Bibi, 172 C by Akhtar Sultana, 213 B by Arshad Begum, 275 B by Ruqiya Begum, 280 B by Khurshid, 285 C by Hussnain Begum, 290 C by Atta Ullah, 293 B by Zahid and 294 B by Mukhtar Hussain. It may be recalled the LDA Estate Management Directorate kept on retrieving LDA lands from the illegal occupants. On last day it retrieved two kanal commercial plots situated at Timber Market, Ravi Road after a successful operation against the land grabbers. Land mafia had occupied this prime land owned by LDA many years ago and had set up an auto workshop besides construction of other structures. The LDA staff had to face severe resistance from the illegal occupants. The staff was held hostage for about half an hour by these elements besides attempting for setting ablaze the machinery used for bulldozing illegal structures. Later on the city police apprehended the culprit.