Jammu Development Authority to evict land grabbers from Rs 150 Cr prime land
The Jammu Development Authority (JDA) has begun the process for eviction of land grabbers by issuing final notices to encroachers, under pressure from the Jammu and Kashmir High Court to eliminate massive encroachments from prime Gole Gujaral land costing around Rs 150 crores.
JDA Sushma Chowhan, Vice Chairperson, said in a notice to the encroachers, without any further notice the JDA will proceed to remove the encroachments in the light of High Court failing to the final opportunity given to the encroachers to remove the encroachments on their own and take away their belongings.
Under section 7 of Public Premises Eviction of unauthorised Occupant Act the notice has been given to 76 land grabbers, as earlier notice period expires on April 15 this year, she said. On March 20, as the JDA admitted that its prime area is under encroachment, the Jammu and Kashmir High Court pulled the Jammu Development Authority (JDA) for enormous land grabbing and directed the Authority to remove encroachments from nearly 170 Kanals of prime Gole Gujaral land in Jammu city costing around Rs 150 Crores. The present vice-chairperson of the JDA, Sushma Chouhan, has been directed by the Division Bench of High Court, comprising Justice Virender Singh and Justice Muzaffar Hussain Attar, in order, immediately initiate steps for evicting the encroachers of 169 kanal and 7 Marla of JDA land in village Gole of Jammu city. The Double Bench also directed all the authorities and the officers presently working in the JDA and Chief Khilafwarzi Officers, who continue to be posted in the JDA for the last 10 years, to disclose their movable and immovable properties within one week, pulling the JDA authorities for turning a blind eye towards unauthorised occupation of Rs 150 crores prime land by land mafia.
Source: The Statesman
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