Forcible occupation of common people’s lands has become a habit of Municipal Council Rajouri, Municipal Council Rajouri Playing With Law Publically , Selling Shop’s Built Illegally :Rajouri Family Said

GNS ONLINE RAJOURI 

RAJOURI JULY 24:–A family from Rajouri on Monday asked people not to purchase shops or any other property built illegally by municipal council Rajouri on a personal land in sheer violation of norms and law.

An aged man, Bhola Ram Sharma working as painter held a press conference in Rajouri alongwith his sons and other family members included Journalist Amit Sharma (son) and others.

In a press conference, the family members said that in Bela colony area of Rajouri town they have a piece of ancestral land bearing Khasra No 117, 118, 118/1 with total measurement around 34 kanals including a water based flour mill (gharaat).

They said that this land is properly and completely registered in all kinds of records including revenue records with all documents are available and it (land) is their ancestral one and their fore fathers used to do farming of rice crop in it.

The family members said that Municipal Council Rajouri in a sheer violation of law and norms initially started construction of a bus stand on this land which was under construction  illegal as on one hand they started construction on agriculture land without its conversion or without issuing any notification and without following the process of government land acquisitions act.

The family knocked the doors of Hon’ble court in 2019 since when a case into the matter is going on and municipal council is well aware about it but it continued the work on the name of bus stand for Darhal, Thanamandi route vehicles has been built there on land which is ours but we never got a single penny of compensation nor we have any information of such work.” the aggrieved family members said.

They added that multiple RTIs have been lodged before all the concerned departments to share revenue papers of land on which bus stand has been built but no RTI has been responded to which shows that this work has been done in an illegal manner.

” This is clear violation of law and illegal act that a Government department used someone’s personal land, built a bus stand over it and owners have been pushed to the wall.” They said.

The members further said that now municipal council Rajouri has started auctioning of shops on this site which itself is illegal.

” We want to request all the people of Rajouri not to be a partner in this sale process of shops as every act of municipality on this land is illegal and whosoever will purchase such a shop will be part of illegal practice and we will submit our complaint for legal proceedings against all such people.” they added.