Chandigarh, March 6 -- A day after the Punjab government suspended 15 tehsildars and naib-tehsildars for not performing their official duty, revenue officials on Wednesday decided to call off their strike, keeping in view the "law-and-order" situation arising out of the farmers' protest across the state. However, the government has not given them work of registration of properties.

The Punjab Revenue Officers' Association had suspended the property registration work till March 7 in protest over the Vigilance Bureau (VB) action against some revenue officials in Ludhiana in a fraudulent land deal. On Monday, they had gone on a mass casual leave, affecting registration work and causing inconvenience to the people.

The protesters also annou...