HYDERABAD, Jan 14: The forced recovery of entry and parking fees in Municipal Zoo by contractor of fun land led to a protest by a large number of visitors on first and second days of Eid-ul-Azha. The contractor’s employees were charging Rs5 as entry fees from the visitors in the fun land, located in Municipal Zoo although no such fee had been levied by the Taluka Municipal Administration (TMA) Qasimabad.

People were being handed over receipts of play land hill park, Karachi, in lieu of Rs5 as entry fee.

The UC-2 Nazim Mehboob Abro protested with the manager of fun land, Imtiaz Abbasi and also talked with the district nazim and taluka nazim. A large number of people, who had made payment of entry fees raised hue and cry in the fun land and later raised slogans against the contractors. They also claimed that parking fees was also being recovered from them.

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