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| Atrocity’ in the name of security | | Army uses force to evict families from Nagrota Cant area | | Early Times Reporter
Jammu | May 14
UNPRECEDENTED INSTANCE of oppression by Army officers was today witnessed at Sparrow and Usman Enclaves located inside Nagorta Cantonment area where a contingent of over two hundred Army men attacked women and children in the twin localities after the later tried to stop the officials from throwing their household goods on the road.
Thirty families having ownership property within cantonment area at Nagrota are being subjected to highhandedness both by the Army authorities for last few years who are forcing them to evict the place for security reasons. While the families are ready to vacate the place against reasonable compensation, the administration wants them to accept what ever it is offering.
Today a large number of Army officials allegedly manhandled and even cane thrashed women, old aged and children after they tried to stop the former from evicting them forcibly from their houses. The officials also resorted to vandalism and threatened inmates that they would be physically thrown out of the houses if they tried to resist them, Bhagwan Dass one of the residents of the area alleged.
He informed that about thirty families having ownership property have been living in
the area much earlier than the establishment of cantonment in 1971 that is after seven years when these people purchased land at the place.
Since last couple of years the families living in Sparrow Enclave near Sheetla Mata Temple and Usman Enclave near Moti Mandir are being asked to vacate the area for security reasons.
Meanwhile, sources informed that Army had also approached civil administration for vacating the area by negotiating compensation and other formalities with the families.
Dass said that while the families were ready to vacate the place but the compensation being offered by the Army was too meager to help them to settle at any other place in Jammu.
Dissatisfied with the rate of rupees four lakh per kanal as being offered to them for the land, the families have also approached the court of law for justice.
However, despite the matter being sub-Judice, the Army entered the twin colonies and used force to evict the families, Dass lamented. |
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