Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, July 6: Former MLC and BJP spokesperson Girdhari Lal Raina has made an appeal to Lt Governor J&K UT G C Murmu urging him to constitute a Special Task Force of the Competent Authority to remove the illegal encroachment from Kashmiri Hindu migrants religious as well as their private property in the Valley.
In a statement issued here Raina has taken serious exception to the forcible encroachment of property of displaced Hindus from Valley over last three decades.
He said in view of increasing land grabbing instances of migrants property in Kashmir it is necessary to create a separate Special Task Force (STF) to look into the matter and ensure a time bound action plan to evict the encroachers and land grabbers and restore the property to lawful owners. It is pertinent to add that some members of the Displaced Community were forced to enter into a sale deed under distress. Various reasons for distress sales include the fear of losing entire property to the grabber. It is therefore important and humane to declare these Distress Sales as Null n Void. Even the Parliamentary Standing Committee has recommended such an action, Raina added.
He said encroachment of immovable property belonging to the displaced community of Hindus in Kashmir Valley is a serious matter. The issue has been raised by the community repeatedly and at all available platforms. With the reorganisation of the erstwhile State into Union Territories and issuance of the Jammu and Kashmir Reorganisation (Adaptation of State Laws) 2020 on 31st March 2020 and amendment to the Jammu and Kashmir Migrant Immovable Property (Preservation, Protection and Restraint on Distress Sales) Act 1997; the competent authority is authorised to prepare details of immovable property of the displaced community and take appropriate action including “use such force as is necessary for taking possession of such property” to evict unauthorised occupants of such property, he added.
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