Early Times Report
Jammu, May 31: Awaiting response from the government to their complaints, the voices of Pandit community have gone shriller on the alleged temple land grab by an “influential families” who constructed private ventures including hospital in Srinagar.
Prominent Kashmir Pandit and Chairman of J&K Peace Forum, Satish Mahaldar has raised fresh concerns over the silence of the administration into the matter.
Seeking attention of the Union Home Minister Amit Shah, Mahaldar has said: “Biggest Fraud 2 different Leases on same piece of Temple land, one lease of (name withheld) hospitals & other one (name withheld) motors. No NOC has been Issued By Jal shakti , KPDCL & SDA to Paras Hospital. Without NOC how building was built,” Mahaldar, who is also the chairman, Reconciliation, Return and Rehabilitation of Migrants, said also seeking attention of the Raj Bhawan.
The Pandit community has already been fighting for the cause.
Earlier this year, Mahaldar issued a statement on behalf of the JK Peace Forum leveling allegations of illegal construction by vested interests on the Durga Nag temple property in Srinagar.
In a press statement, Mahaldar said, “Since the last 33 years, no successive governments took any initiative to protect temple properties of minorities of Kashmir, despite repeated court orders, temple properties have been illegally given on lease.”
On the other hand, in its letter sent to the Union Home Ministry in April 2023, the Kashmiri Pandit Sangarash Samiti (KPSS), an organisation of Kashmiri Pandits, has said: “The usurping of temple land owned by Durga Nag Trust and after that construction of building illegally … is one of the glaring examples that how a system is used in very dignified way in order to strip down the property belonging to the temple and make it a third party concern and subsequently earn revenue out of it and use it against the Kashmiri Pandit settlements.”
The community has been accusing the administration of being silent on the issue.
Observers are of the opinion that New Delhi must intervene. |
