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| Authorities put restraint on sale of temple property in Kashmir | | | EARLY TIMES REPORT
Srinagar, Apr 28 : Concerned over the reports that land mafia was selling temple land through unlawful transactions, authorities has put restrain on such deals in the central Kashmir district of Badgam.
The All Party Migrant Coordination Committee (APMCC) had time and again alleged that government was not serious to protect the religious places of Kashmiri pandits from the land mafia.
Official sources said here today that the District Magistrate, Budgam, has placed restraint on alienation, in any manner, of 180 kanals of proprietary land by Akhada Sadhavn situated in villages Kenihama and Manganvaj of Tehsil Chadoora.
They said the embargo comes in the wake of repeated attempts by brokers to cause unlawful transaction in the subject property and encroachment by the land mafia.
This is for the first time the authorities have put restraint on such deals in the Kashmir valley since the community migrated to other parts of the country in the wake of militancy in early 90s.
Chairman of the AMPCC Vinod Pandita today said" We demand a CBI probe into the alleged encroachments of temples and shrines and other property of Kashmiri pandits by land mafia." He also alleged that a number of Kashmiri Pandits were also involved in the sale of the shrine and temple property in the valley.
Pandit said government had deliberately delayed to table the temple and shrine bill in the state assembly.
He said the government has no data on the damage, encroachments and destruction of the temples in the Valley which was evident from the fact that despite its RTI application some several month ago the government was yet to respond.
He said APMCC has written two letters to the Chief Secretary also in this regard but no response has been given to the RTI applications.
Pandit alleged that the government was either in deep slumber or misleading the people over the actual position of the temples in the Valley.
He said APMCCs demand of a white paper on temples and shrines of Kashmiri Pandits in Valley.
Maintaining that 80 per cent of temples, shrines and holy springs were damaged or encroached in Valley, APMCC said it was the pressure of land mafia in Valley that prevented the successive governments from tabling the Kashmiri Hindu Shrines and Religious Places (Management and Regulation Bill) in the assembly.
Pandit said that the damaged number of temples across the valley was much higher than the admission of the government during the Assembly proceedings recently.
He said it is not only the temples but other allied religious properties of migrants which have either been damaged or encroached by land mafia in connivance with politicians and administration.
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