HC seeks documents from hotels, guest houses around Dal lake

Excelsior Correspondent
SRINAGAR, Dec 11: High Court today closed down Public Interest Litigation (PIL) pertaining to illegal construction within the limits of Green belt with the direction to Director Tourism,Kashmir to see whether the guest houses or hoteliers are having requisite documents and land ownership certificates to operate.
The court said in case there is any deviation, the guest houses or hoteliers should not be registered unless they don’t submit requisite documents necessary for their operation.”
It was further directed by court to petitioner organization,people’s Forum to seek any other relief in case they have any other grievance.
Earlier people’s Forum through their counsel Shafkat Nazir had moved a petition seeking redressal of the grievance by stating before court that 107 structures mainly guest houses and hotels are operating without land ownership certificates and are not registered by the Government.