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| Mutation of migrant land records by Revenue officials goes unabated in Valley | | |
ET Report
JAMMU, July 29: The mutation of land records of Kashmiri migrants in Valley is going unabated with Government totally sleeping over the issue.
Despite the enactment of the Distress Sale Act by the State Government way back in 1997, no check has been maintained on the sale and purchase of the migrants immovable property in Valley. According to sources the Act has been made a toothless legislation by Government itself as Government itself failed to implement the law in letter and spirit and declare the properties sold by migrants over these years as null and void.
Sources said the successive government s in the State since the promulgation of the Act for obvious reasons did not bother to see that the same is implemented in letter and spirit to save the migrants left over immovable property in Valley. In spite of the law being in vogue thousands kanals of the land belonging to Kashmir migrants was sold in the Valley and not even a single kanal of it was turned null and void by the Government, sources added.
Sources said that with flaws in the law the touts in connivance with revenue officials found ways and means for transfer of the land by seeking attorney from the owners of the land. This resulted into litigations and disputes and hundreds of cases are pending with various deputy commissioners in Valley and the poor migrants elude justice till date.
Sources said that not only the sale of migrants land by throwing the Distress Sale Act to winds the migrants cultivable land has been transferred by mutating the land records by revenue officials. Such cases have surfaced in various areas of Kashmir Valley. In village Sedhapoora of Shopian district of South Kashmir the land of some migrant families including Dina Nath Sharma and Prakash Devi has been mutated by the Revenue officials despite the fact that the records possessed by the migrants show that the land was on their name and self cultivated by them till 1990 when the mass exodus took place in Valley.
But to the utter surprise of the families this land has been shown in the records on the name of another person belonging to majority community as cultivator since 1971. When the family took up the issue with the concerned District Development Commissioner the officer could not decide the case. Even he could not seek an explanation from the revenue officials who had mutated the records.
Sources said such a fraud has been made by the revenue officials that even the records of orchard land have been mutated under Dafa 8 (Act 8) of Agrarian Act when the same act does not imply to orchard land as per the Agrarian Land Reforms Act. The land belonging to Pandit family in Shopian village has been shown in the name of one member of majority community while the actual papers with the owner Prakash Devi shows that the land as orchard was cultivated by her till 1990.
Despite surfacing of many such land mutation cases the Revenue authorities have failed to act against the officials responsible for the same which has been a cause of concern among the migrants.
Even some KP organisations have expressed apprehensions against the Government's return formula saying had it been sincere it would have never allowed the mutation of land records of migrants and encroachment of their land. |
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