JK administration releases another list of over 2,500 Roshni Act beneficiaries, ‘encroachers’

JAMMU/SRINAGAR: The Jammu and Kashmir administration has released another list of over 2,500 people, including a retired police officer, a PDP leader’s son and a prominent businessman, who have either availed land under the Roshni Act or encroached state land.

While 2,195 of them were named in various lists related to Roshni Act and encroached land released by the divisional administration of Jammu concerning different tehsils of the district, the lists released in Kashmir named 335 beneficiaries of the Roshi scheme covering eight districts.

Another list covering those who have encroached upon the state land, either recorded or not recorded in revenue records, released by the divisional administration of Jammu included 3,435 names. Most of them belong to the majority community of Jammu, who have usurped thousand of kanals of land in different parts of Jammu district. (AGENCIES)