Distress sale of
properties
Sir,
The Militancy in
Kashmir is passing through second decade now. All
politicians from Prime Minister to Chief Minister
and even every political Tom, Dick and Harry have
been crying hoarse that the militancy has
extensively destroyed the economy of the State
and Kashmiris are the worst hit of this economic
slide. On this very plea the State Government has
been every now and then pestering the Centre to
provide liberal financial assistance. But
fortunately it is apparent that Muslims in the
Valley have been sustaining themselves by hook or
by crook and there has been no reported case of
any starvation or like that till date.
Meanwhile, the
Kashmiri Pandit migrants started selling their
immovable properties in the Valley in distress.
Each property goes for less than half the
prevailing market price. Nobody except the State
subject can purchase the immoveable property in
Jammu and Kashmir. It is, therefore, natural that
the buyers are Kashmiri Muslim. The present
government passed a law banning distress sale of
Kashmiri migrant property. However, the sale of
the property took the route via attorney. All
this is in the knowledge of the Government. And
it is acting deaf and dumb.
According to Mr
Bashir Ahmed Nengroo, a Minister in the Farooq
government, 90 per cent property of the migrants
in the Valley has been sold. By any conservative
estimates the distress sale price of this
property would be several hundred crores of
rupees.
Then again the
Valley is flooded with the four wheelers of
different brands and makes. This also means
expenditure of several hundred crores of rupees.
Now the question is where did this money come
from when according to daily Government
statements ''an average Kashmiri hardly affords
two square meals a day''. Can anyone solve this
riddle?
Yours etc...
J L Dhar,
Shastri Nagar, Jammu.
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