Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, Jan 2: The Jammu & Kashmir Housing Board completed the protection work of its prime land worth Rs 200 crore at Gole Market, Gandhi Nagar in Jammu in a record time of six days.
The J&K Police has been stationed at site round the clock to ensure protection of land from the miscreants and to keep strict surveillance. The land protection was started by the Board on December 26, 2020 night at Gole Market, Gandhi Nagar, Jammu. The land, measuring 6.85 kanals, was allotted to the J&K Housing Board by the Government in 1980 and was envisaged to be used for construction of a Commercial Complex. The land was encroached and involved in undue litigation by the encroachers who rested their claim on the Government order of 1958 which they lost in the Supreme Court and J&K High Court.
A senior officer of the Housing Board said that the land in question measuring 62 kanals-01 marla, in 1958 was transferred to Ziarat at Gandhi Nagar. Meanwhile, the land of Rakh Bahu was transferred to Gandhi Nagar Colony & the aforementioned land measuring 62 kanals and 01 marla, transferred to Ziarat, situated at the Center of the colony. In 1959, the Muslim Wakaf Act was passed laying down procedure for administration of Wakaf property. And the land measuring 62 kanals and one marla became Wakaf property. In 1967, the Wakaf Committee filed a suit in the court of competent jurisdiction at Jammu to declare the land measuring 62 kanals and one marla as Wakaf property.
The matter landed in the High Court which declared the said land as Wakaf property. Against the order of High Court the private parties approached the Supreme Court which upheld the decision of High Court, J&K declaring the land measuring 62 kanals 01 marlas as Wakaf property.
In 1980, vide Government Order No.125-UD of 1980 dated 25.02.1980; two patches of land were transferred to J&K Housing Board in Gole Market area. In 1983, the private parties approached the Munsiff Court, Jammu claiming possession and ownership of two plots measuring 160’+120’x210′ allotted to J&K Housing Board. The suit was dismissed on 15.09.1984. In 1994, J&K Housing Board initiated the process of constructing commercial complex at site. But for the second plot, the private parties kept involved in false litigation thus misrepresenting facts.
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