Excelsior Correspondent
SAMBA, June 25: Tightening the noose against encroachers, District Magistrate Samba, Rohit Khajuria today carried out an anti encroachment drive at village Birpur, near Balol bridge, Bari Brahmana.
According to the report, a team headed by Sub Divisional Magistrate, Vijaypur, C P Kotwal, Tehsildar Bari Brahmana, Qaiser Malik, SHO Arjun Singh and other officials of revenue and police reached the encroachment site and pressed a JCB machine to dismantle the wall being erected over the Khad land bearing Khasra No. 1734. The khad land is situated adjoining the Balol bridge on National Highway connecting Jammu-Samba and boundary walls were being constructed. The construction over the land was immediately stopped and notices were also issued to the concerned agencies under relevant laws.
The Khad land was being aggressively converted and construction on boundary walls was also carried out at the behest of some land grabbers active in the area. District administration has warned such encroacher that any attempt to convert the title of the land without intimation of revenue Department shall be dealt sternly in district.
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