Excelsior Correspondent
Srinagar, Dec 27: Jammu and Kashmir High Court today directed Choudhary Ramzan, Minister for Consumer Affairs and Public Distribution, not to utilize the green strip of land that adjoins his house being constructed at Humhama in Srinagar outskirts.
A Single Bench of Justice Muzaffar Hussain Attar directed the owner of the house that present status of the property “shall be maintained and shall remain undisturbed till further orders from the court”.
But, the court gave a reprieve to the Minister by modifying its earlier status quo order of November by allowing him to lay the tin on the uncovered part of the roof of the house after his counsel submitted that the roof was 80 per cent complete which will suffer damage in winter if it remains uncovered.
The CAPD Minister is building a multi-storey house on a land at Friends Colony at Humhama which is owned by his son, but a resident Dr. Ghulam Nabi Yatoo filed a petition in the court against him for “managing permission from Srinagar Municipal Corporation to build a two-storey residential house in clear violation of the sanctioned plan at the site and grabbing public land and green strip reserved for beautification of the colony, which is detrimental to rights and interests of its inhabitants”.
The court also directed the respondent to file an undertaking before the Registrar Judicial that they will comply with the aforementioned order.
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