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| Septuagenarian sitting on protest for 900 days, authorities unmoved | | Land mortgaged for Rs 1000/ 38-yrs ago | |  Abodh Sharma
Early Times Report
Jammu, Nov 6: In a incident which can hang many a heads in shame, a septuagenarian in Akhnoor Tehsil is squatting outside the tehsil office for the last 900 days to get his 15 kanals land that was mortgaged by his family for a meager Rs. 1000/-, 38 years back.
Raghunath Singh, S/O Damu Ram and his two nephews, Kirpal Singh and Raghubir Singh, S/O Kiru Ram, all residents of Village Padli Nandwal, tehsil Akhnoor filed a petition in 2012 in the court of Assistant Commissioner Revenue, with powers of Collector Agrarian Reforms seeking to retrieve 15 kanals and 15 marlas of their land falling in village Kote Maira in Akhnoor which was mortgaged by their family with Suram Singh of the same village for one thousand rupees in 1978. The petition was made by the petitioners under section 10 of the Agrarian reform Act 1976, seeking redemption of their land from Ramesh Singh and Shamsher Singh sons of Suram Singh.
Raghunath Singh and his nephews according to their petition approached the mortgagee several times to accept the amount of Rs. 1000/- for which the land was mortgaged with him by their family due to extreme poverty, but he refused to accept the money and retrieve the land to them.
The AC (R) in his order after going through the facts and revenue record ruled in his judgment announced on 20.9.2012 that the mortgage can no longer be allowed to continue and use the subject land under law which has already exceeded the statutory period of 10 years prescribed under the Agrarian reforms Act 1976 and directed to redeem the mortgage in favour of the petitioners. He also directed in his order to Tehsildar Akhnoor to implement the order as warranted under rules.
However, four years since this direction of the Collector Agrarian Reforms was announced, the Tehsildar Akhnoor and other Revenue authorities have done nothing to implement the order he was obliged to do, despite repeated prayers and written communication by Raghunath Singh and his nephews. His repeated communications to Tehsildar Akhnoor and Nb Tehsildar Khour, under whose jurisdiction the said land falls have failed to move them. "The sons of Suram Singh who are in possession of land are affluent and well connected and revenue officials are obliged to favour them for obvious reasons" said an official of the Revenue department in Akhnoor. "Despite legislations and reforms, the poor and the needy seldom get their benefits, thanks to the thick skinned, corrupt and deep pocketed officials who care for nothing except themselves" he added.
Meanwhile, in deep distress, Raghunath Singh, now over 70, chose to sit on protest outside the office of tehsildar Akhnoor, but atrociously, 900 days have passed since this fragile old man started his dharna, but thick skinned revenue officials remain shamelessly unmoved. |
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