Owner of Raj Kapoor's ancestral home in Pakistan refuses to sell building at govt rate
Peshawar, Jan 27: The owner of Indian film legend Raj Kapoor's ancestral home in Peshawar has refused to sell the building at the rate fixed by the provincial Khyber Pakhtunkhwa government, saying the prime-location property has been severely undervalued.
Earlier in the month, the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa government had approved the release of Rs 1.5 crore for Kapoor's ancestral home, with the aim to turn it into a museum in honour of the movie star.
Haji Ali Sabir, the present owner of the haveli, in a chat with a private news channel on Wednesday, flatly refused to sell the property at Rs 1.5 crore.
"Even half a Marla land in the area is not available for Rs 1.5 crore. How can I sell the six-marla property for Rs 1.5 crore?" he said.
Marla, a traditional unit of area used in India, Pakistan and Bangladesh, is considered as equal to 272.25 square feet or 25.2929 square metres.
Sabir said the right valuation of the property is Rs 200 crore.
Raj Kapoor's ancestral home, known as Kapoor Haveli, is situated in the fabled Qissa Khwani Bazar. It was built between 1918 and 1922 by the legendary actor's grandfather Dewan Basheswarnath Kapoor.
Raj Kapoor and his uncle Trilok Kapoor were born here. The building has been declared national heritage by the provincial government.
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Bengaluru: As a part of the measures taken by the Police Department and the National Highway Authority of India (NHAI) for the safety of drivers on the Bengaluru-Mysuru highway, 60 cameras have been installed in order to detect and prevent sectional overspeeding on the highway.
The traffic and road safety wing of the Karnataka Police Department has installed 48 radar-based Automatic Number Plate Recognition (ANPR) cameras at six points on the 119-km stretch at a cost of Rs 3.5 crore while the National Highway Authority of India (NHAI) has installed video cameras at three points.
The cameras are meant to capture the incidents on the service roads too, for detection of violation, and generation of challans automatically to the vehicle owners. Testing of the cameras is on while the process of issuing challans is set to begin soon.
Alok Kumar, the Additional Director General of Police (Traffic and Road Safety and Training), has said that the cameras will calculate the average time required for a vehicle to cross a section between two camera poles and calculate if a driver was violating the speed limit. This will ensure that a driver does not slow down just while approaching a camera pole as he/she will have to maintain the permissible speed throughout the stretch.
The ADGP said that the cameras would also help in detecting seatbelt violations, mobile phone use while driving, lane violations and unauthorized access of non-motorized vehicles, two and three-wheelers on the highway.
He said that the cameras would be installed at accident-prone areas like Ganangooru, Channapatna, Ramanagara and Maddur, also stating that vendors have been instructed to enable to newly installed camera systems to detect sectional overspeeding on the highway.
