Karnal, July 11 -- Officials of the Karnal municipal corporation (MC) on Thursday attached six commercial properties of the city on which Rs.26.83 lakh property tax was pending.

MC commissioner Vaishali Sharma said that these properties have been attached under Section 130 of Haryana Municipal Corporation Act 1994.

Giving information about the action, she said that the MC teams were to attach 15 properties on the day, of which action was taken on six of them, while eight property owners handed over cheques of nearly Rs.47 lakh to the team on the spot to avoid attachment action.

Apart from this, an animal dairy near the railway line of Ram Nagar has asked for one day's time to pay property tax of Rs.4.18 lakh.

The commissioner said tha...