Fine art of land grabbing and rewarding too!
The State Land Grabbers – V
To us state property is nobody's property. But it does become our own if no one is watching or the state authorities connive and deliberately preferred to deep slumber. This common knowledge has strengthen the belief most prevalent in Jammu and Kashmir that law does not have long arms rather it is deaf and dumb thus never punish any violator. When in the dead of night, Street lights, manhole covers and roadside dustbins, transformers, telephone cables and even telephone poles vanish, the state land can also be usurped brazenly. To their pleasant surprise, the land grabbers never thought of getting reward to for doing their disservice to the state.
To share the names of violators who were rewarded by the mis-conceived Roshni Act brought in by none else but Ghulam Nabi Azad who showered bounties over them. The Northlines continues with the next lists of test cases examined and audited by the CAG units that contains many big names of top political figures in and out of government, serving and retired bureaucrats, top businessmen who possessed the state land and availed huge incentive worth crores of rupees on their act of grabbing state land.
The Roshni Scheme stands challenged before the JK High Court without much progress due to non-cooperative attitude of the District Administration. Further the scheme being already under scrutiny of Public Accounts Committee of Legislature and progressing too at snail's pace indicates that people will have to wait at least till 2022 to know about the truth. (To be continued)
