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Encroachment of state land: J&K administration reveals names of 7 illegal occupants, including PDP office

According to the administration, PDP office stands on three kanals (roughly 1,500 square metres) of illegally occupied state land in Sunjwan village.

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The Jammu and Kashmir administration on Wednesday made public a list of seven illegal occupants of land in Jammu district, including the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP).

This comes a day after two former chief ministers, Farooq Abdullah and his son Omar Abdullah, were listed among encroachers on state land

According to the J&K administration, the PDP office stands on three kanals (roughly 1,500 square metres) of illegally occupied state land in Sunjwan village of Jammu.

However, the party president Mehbooba Mufti has denied all allegations citing the premises had been rented. Mehbooba Mufti tweeted, 'Godi Gang’s desperation to please their masters without checking facts is evident.'

She wrote, 'Otherwise they'd know that PDP office both in Srinagar & Jammu is rented accommodation & NOT owned by the party. Shame on this Godi Gang for misleading people.'

PDP spokesperson Firdous Tak referred to as the allegation a blatant lie, and stated the occasion has just one workplace in Jammu - a rented lodging in Gandhi Nagar.

PDP leader Talib Choudhary is also among the alleged encroachers with two kanals of land in Channi Rama under his occupation.

The names of former senior superintendent of police Mirza Rasheed, businessman Haji Sultan Ali, former Congress minister Aijaz Khan's relative Zehan Din and former inspector general of police Nisar Ali figured in the list.

Bansi lal, who runs the 'Early Instances' newspaper and Mahant Manjeet Singh, trustee of Digiana Ashram in Jammu, have additionally been mentioned as alleged beneficiaries.

The Jammu and Kashmir administration is making public the names of alleged beneficiaries of a two-decade-old, now-repealed law called the Roshni Act that allowed people to acquire proprietary rights to land they had illegally occupied by paying for it. It is also naming those who are still in illegal possession of state land.

The administration had earlier talked about former PDP chief Haseeb Drabu and three of his family as alleged beneficiaries of Roshni Act.

On Tuesday, it had alleged that the residence of Omar and Farooq Abdullah was constructed on encroached forest land in Sunjwan, Jammu.

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