Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, June 4: Kashmiri Pandit Conference ( KPC ) has strongly condemned the encroachment of the properties belonging to displaced Pandits as well as their temples and shrines in Kashmir Valley and asked the State Government to get these encroachments vacated.
Kundan Kashmiri, president KPC in a statement issued here, today said that many unscrupulous people from the majority community are taking full advantage of the exodus of the Pandits from Kashmir and have encroached their properties as well as of their temples, shrines and other religious places.
He said the latest such happening has taken place in village Ranger, Chadura,Badgam, where politicians as well as Government is involved to help the encroachers. Besides, at Jwala Ji Asthpan, Khrew, Kashmir, some people from the majority community have encroached upon the temple land and are making efforts to fence the same for the purpose of using it as a graveyard.
Kashmiri also stated that after the mass migration of KPs from Valley, a total of 85,749 kanals of land and 10155 numbers of structures belonging to them were left behind in Kashmir, but the Government failed to protect it from encroachers, which exposed its tall claims that it is committed to welfare of displaced Pandits.
He said after KPs migration in1990 more than 200 complaints of encroachment have been registered in the offices of Deputy Commissioners of ten districts of Kashmir Division but Government seems least bothered.
President KPC, Kundan Kashmiri has again strongly taken up this issue of encroachment with Ministry of Home Affairs as well as with State and district authorities of Kashmir valley and urged for immediate intervention for getting these encroachment cases settled.
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