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Despite public outcry, land grabbing on rise in Jammu
4/30/2016 12:17:29 AM

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JAMMU, Apr 29: Despite a hue and cry made by the people against the encroachment of State and forestland in different parts of Jammu, the Government has failed to get the same freed from the clutches of land grabbers.
According to sources hundreds of kanals of State land have been encroached in Tawi belt in Jammu right from Bhagwati Nagar to Beli Charana by the mafia groups but the authorities have failed to take cognizance of the same.
Instead of taking action against the illegal occupants of the State land in this belt, the authorities have resorted to harass those people who have constructed their houses on the land purchased by them after getting the drawings approved in Jammu Municipal Corporation (JMC) and other agencies, sources said.
However to cover up the land grabbers and mafia groups wielding a political influence the authorities acted against the legal occupants of land and harassed them too so that there is no public outcry against the land mafia and authorities will not be forced to put pressure on them to vacate their land.
Sources said in Beli Charana and Sunjwan area also large number of forest and State land has been encroached by land mafia on which palatial houses have been constructed even by some politicians and business community members. The authorities have failed to vacate the JDA land in Sarore area of Bari Brahmana tehsil in Samba district till date which is under the occupation of illegal occupants, sources added.
Sources said some political groups were openly supporting these land grabbers knowing fully that the land belonged to State Government. Not only in Bari Brahmana but in Vijaypur and Samba tehsils hundreds kanal of land on the bank of river Basantar and other rivers have been encroached upon by the mafia groups. The land grabbing is so galore in the Jammu region that mafia groups are in search of vacant land and within days they manage to set up their temporary structures on it which by and by are turned in permanent structures, sources added.
Sources said that this all is being done under a hatched conspiracy and under the very nose of concerned departments who pretend to be ignorant as they get lofty amount from the mafia groups.
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