Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, May 11: Another family in Greater Kailash locality here today claimed that they were being harassed and intimidated by two siblings, who had been falsely claiming ownership over their ancestral land.
A 39-year-old man was earlier killed in a land dispute in Greater Kailash locality on April 30.
Chaman Lal Sharma, son of late Madan Lal Sharma, resident of Lower Chowadhi, Greater Kailash, Jammu, claimed that brothers, had been falsely implicating them and defaming them in the media, claiming ownership of a land their father purchased for Rs 1000 in 1944. The disputed land falls under Khasra numbers 18, 19, 20, and 21 respectively.
“But the two brothers have been concocting a story to the media and authorities that their father used to cultivate this land prior to 1984, when he stopped tilling the land due to communal tensions,” Sharma said.
He added that the duo had been deliberately trying to give this entire issue a communal colour to dislocate them from their rightful land, for which even the Revenue officials have confirmed them as the owners.
According to Sharma, one of the brothers is a history-sheeter, having completed a term of several months in jail in Punjab under the NDPS Act.
The duo had even claimed refugee compensation by forging their grandfather’s details in the Revenue record, for which an inquiry is pending against them with the Divisional Commissioner Jammu Office , he said.
Sharma stated that their case is being investigated by the Crime Branch Jammu under PV number 141/2023, and they are open to any scrutiny or investigation to prove their rightful ownership of the land.
As such, he appealed to the authorities to conduct further inquiry into the matter and to stop the siblings from threatening and harassing them by booking them under the relevant sections of the law.
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