Srinagar, Feb 2: In its ongoing anti-encroachment drive, the Jammu and Kashmir government has retrieved encroached land from kin of former Forest Minister and Senior NC Leader, Peerzada Ghulam Ahmad Shah and also demolished illegal shopping complex of Hurriyat leader.
The revenue officials of Tehsil Qazigund today, acting decisively, retrieved the landmeasuring one kanal and 18 marlas is registered as Kahcharai in Estate Kurigam of Tehsil Qazigund. As per revenue officials, the land was encroached by a kin of senior NC leader and ex Minister Peerzada Ghulam Ahmad Shah.
The said piece of land, valuing more than Rs 1 crore, had been illegally encroached upon and is one of the many such patches of land retrieved from clutches of influential land grabbers.
,The district administration Anantnag also demolished an ‘illegal’ shopping complex of Hurriyat leader and former Mirwaiz of South Kashmir, Qazi Yasir on Thursday morning, an official said.
An official told that Qazi Yasir, who is a Hurriyat leader had illegally raised the shopping complex on a state land near stadium in Anantnag.
He said the complex has been demolished and shops have been sealed.
“The shops will be handed over to the Municipal council Anantnag”, he saiid.
It is worthwhile to mention here that Qazi Ahmed Yasir is a Hurriyat leader, the former Mirwaiz of South Kashmir and a renowned scholar. He was suspended from the post of Mirwaiz in 2018 after a purported video surfaced showing him in an obscene act with a woman. However, the case is being investigated by a body of socio, political, legal and religious activists from the Kashmir valley.Since 2018 he has been in jail.
He was a member of the All Party Hurriyat Conference (APHC) led by its chairman Mirwaiz Umar Farooq.
Earlier in a major crackdown, the National Investigation Agency (NIA) also sealed the APHC head office in Rajbagh, Srinagar. (ANI/KNO)
