BJP calls for SIT probe towards income officers over state land encroachment – The Dispatch

JAMMU: Jammu and Kashmir Bhartiya Janta Social gathering (BJP) on Tuesday demanded a probe by a Particular Investigation Crew (SIT) towards income officers for altering income information of state lands and promoting them to folks.

“They Modified the titles of the lands from state land to non-public lands in a large approach”, he mentioned, including that this encroachment of hundreds of hectares of land in Jammu is the “largest land rip-off” price crores of rupees.

“We search a probe towards the income officers – Patwaris, Girdawarees and tehsildars who tempered with information and adjusted the income information of the state and authorities lands as personal lands. We would like motion towards them,” J&Ok BJP Chief Ravinder Raina advised reporters right here.

“There must be an evaluation of the properties of all these income officers, land mafia concerned on this rip-off. They need to be arrested and their properties must be confiscated”, he added.

Raina mentioned Lieutenant Governor Manoj Sinha has already made it clear that motion can be taken towards the officers concerned with none prior discover.

“No poor will likely be hit. The eviction of encroachers from authorities lands is the order of the Excessive courtroom and Supreme courtroom”, he mentioned, including, “He mentioned that they won’t be effected. LG mentioned that as it’s courtroom order we can not immediately make any coverage. With the consent of courtroom, coverage will likely be shaped.”

The Peoples Democratic Social gathering (PDP) and the Aam Aadmi Social gathering (AAP) Tuesday held demonstrations towards the continued anti-encroachment drive by the Jammu and Kashmir administration, saying that it was affecting poor folks.