‘Constructions raised by encroachers demolished, police on hunt to arrest grabbers’
Srinagar, June 20 : Government Monday said that it has booked three persons for encroaching land of a degree college in Srinagar city, and said that the land has been freed from the encroachers.
Informing the Lower House today about the land grab of Government Degree College, Nawakadal, in Eidgah Assembly segment, Minister for Revenue, Relief and Rehabilitation, Syed Basharat Bukhari, said that FIR has been registered against the three encroachers.
He said that as per demarcation carried out, the encroachments have been noticed from Azad Ahmad R/O Nowhatta (one marla), Reyaz Ahmed Andrabi R/O Abu Baker Lane Eidgah (08 Marlas), Farooq Ahmad Panzoo S/O Gh. Qadir R/O Eidgah (5 Marla).
Though presently functioning at Nawakadal, the government has allotted land for the college at Saidpora in Eidgah Constituency which has been encroached.
“The college land was encroached by three persons. Police has filed FIR against them. But they are absconding and have not been arrested yet,” Bukhari said.
The issue was raised by Opposition National Conference legislator from Eidgah Assembly segment, Mubarak Gul.
Gul had raised the land grab in the Lower House on Saturday and had demanded the government to take action and retrieve the land.
The minister said that the constructions that were raised by the encroachers were demolished by the government and grabbed land has been retrieved.
“Rs 25 lakh has been released for fencing the land to protect it from further encroachment,” the minister said. (KNS)