Excelsior Correspondent
SRINAGAR, July 23: The State Court today directed the former Deputy Commissioner Anantnag to conclude the report in a land acquisition case within two weeks and file the report before the court regarding compensation claim of the petitioner whose land has been acquired by Pahalgam Development Authority.
Justice Ali Mohammad Magrey after hearing a petition wherein the petitioner Bashir Ahmad Fargadoo states that his land measuring 8 Kanals and 19 Marlas situated at Pahalgam in the first instance has been occupied by the SKUAST authorities, but later the land was occupied by the PDA authorities which at present is in their possession.
The court directed the then DC Anantnag Sougat Bisvas to conclude the report and submit it before the court and “in case he fails to do so he shall remain present in person on next date”.
The Court in this regard also directed the present DC Anantnag to provide all documents pertaining to the case to Bisvas so as to ensure him to complete the report.
The petitioner also submits that he also moved an application to collector Anangnag(DC) for compensation but all in vain and no compensation till date has been paid to him as the Government is playing and infringing the rights of the petitioners.
He is praying in his petition that proceeding regarding acquisition be concluded by adhering to the provisions of land acquisition act and awarded amount be paid to him.

Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, July 23: Army chief Gen Bikram Singh will visit mountainous peak of Drass in Kargil sector to pay tributes to the martyrs of 1999 Kargil war on July 25.
The visit will be confined to Drass, official sources said.
They said Gen Singh, who is retiring on July 31, will fly to Drass, pay tributes to martyrs and inter-act with Army officers and jawans.
He will be in Drass for couple of hours and will return to New Delhi the same day.
Army observes ‘Vijay Divas’ to mark victory over Pakistan in Kargil war.

NEW DELHI, July 23:
A Shiv Sena MP was caught on a video footage apparently force-feeding a fasting Muslim employee in the New Maharashtra Sadan here sparking outrage and a huge uproar in Parliament today amid demands for action against its MPs involved in the incident and calls to avoid giving communal tinge.
As the unsavoury episode escalated into a major controversy, sources in the Sadan, which is the guesthouse of the Maharashtra Government, said it was a fall out of a group of Shiv Sena MPs being allegedly upset over the quality of food served there.
Claiming there was no one to take note of their complaint, the MPs then allegedly barged into the canteen and questioned an employee of the caterer observing Roza and who was identified as Arshad Zubair.
Watched by his party colleagues, Rajan Vichare in a fit of rage tried to thrust a roti in the mouth of the employee during the incident that was reported to have happened last week. The shaken employee, who had his name tag on his shirt, appeared to plead to the MP not to do this to him.
Vichare, who initially claimed that he did not do anything as made out after the footage was aired on TV channels, later said he regretted the incident. “I did not know the person’s name, caste or community,” he had earler said in the day.
As anger mounted over his action, Vichare later said, “I came to know that the employee was a Muslim only after seeing TV footage and I regret it”. He also claimed that he was only trying to draw the attention of authorities to poor quality of food served at the Sadan.
Opposition parties seized on the incident that came as an embarassment for the BJP-led NDA Government and said it was an apt case to refer to the Parliament’s Ethics Committee.
The issue was raised in both Lok Sabha and Rajya Sabha by Opposition members who demanded action against the Shiv Sena MPs who vociferously denied the reports.
After the uproar by Opposition, the two Houses witnessed brief adjournments as agitated members wanted to raise the issue which was staunchly opposed by the Shiv Sena. The Lok Sabha also witnessed a walkout by the Congress, NCP, Left, PDP and AIMIM.
Shiv Sena President Uddhav Thackeray said the uproar over the incident was an attempt to “silence” his party’s voice.
He, however, said despite being a votary of Hindutva, Shiv Sena had no hatred for other religions.
“This (uproar over the incident) is an attempt to silence Shiv Sena’s voice. We are proponents of Hindutva but we don’t have hatred for other religions,” Uddhav told reporters in Aurangabad.
The IRCTC, the Indian Railways subsidiary that was catering for the Sadan, stopped all operations at the Sadan in protest and complained in writing to the Maharashtra Resident Commissioner, saying the employee had been “deeply pained and hurt…As religious sentiments are attached.”
In a bid to calm frayed tempers in Lok Sabha, Union Minister M Venkaiah Naidu dismissed the allegations against the Sena MPs as “unsubstantiated” and said they need to be verified first lest they raise communal passions.
“We are dealing with a sensitive issue… Don’t try to raise communal passions. Nobody knows the truth. Whether the incident has happened or not, we are not sure,” Naidu said.
He said the the Government is in no way connected with the “unsavoury” incident. “We need to enquire…Let us not send wrong signals to the country.”
Raising the issue during Zero Hour, Congress member M I Shanavas described the incident as “shocking” and said it is “cutting at the root of secularism. MPs who should be role models have become bad models…The faith of minorities has been tarnished. The House should condemn it.”
Defending the Sena MPs, party leader and Union Minister Anant Geete said, “Those who want to respect the month of Ramzan should not make false statement in the House”, triggering sharp protests from the Opposition.
“Whatever the report has appeared is totally false and Congress is trying to tarnish the image of the Narendra Modi Government,” Geete said.
In the Rajya Sabha, Minister of State for Parliamentary Affairs Prakash Javadekar said, “It is an unsubstantiated report. We should not take it to the next level. Let it be ascertained. There are sensitivities involved.”
Outside Parliament, Krupal Tumane, Shiv Sena MP, said the food in the New Maharashtra Sadan is of inferior quality and the rotis cannot be broken with hand.
“We waited for the Resident Commissioner for over an hour to register our complaint. Since he did not turn up, we went to the canteen and asked the employee to eat the rotis himself. A Roza is not broken till the time someone swallows the food.”
He accused the Congress of trying to give a communal colour to the incident.
The BJP came out in defence of its ally and said that the MPs had no inclination to hurt religious feelings of any individual.
“The video also shows that the MPs had no intent to hurt anyone’s feelings,” BJP spokesperson Rajiv Pratap Rudy said.
When asked whether this case was fit to be referred to Parliament’s Ethics Committee,  NCP MP Supriya Sule responded in the affirmative.
Ghulam Nabi Azad, Leader of the Opposition in Rajya Sabha, said, “I appeal that no communal colour should be given to this. But, they should not have tried to thrust rotis during the month of Ramzan when the person was observing fast.”
MIM Chief and Hyderabad MP Asaduddin Owaisi demanded that a compalint be filed against the erring MPs and also their arrest. (PTI)