Private residence constructed on encroached state land: Report
National Conference President Dr. Farooq Abdullah and a sitting Member of Parliament from Srinagar, who also remained Chief Minister on several occasions between 1982 to 1996 and served as Union Minister in the cabinet of Dr. Manmohan Singh is now facing serious charges of illegally occupying state/forest land in Sunjwan village of Bahu tehsil in Jammu district.
The controversial piece of land, measuring 7.7 kanals (roughly one acre) was used by the National Conference leader to construct his private mansion with 20-30 feet high boundary walls.
These startling revelations were made by the office of Divisional Commissioner Jammu after it made public a list of encroachers who had illegally occupied state/forest land in and around Jammu.
According to the list uploaded on the website of the office of Divisional Commissioner Jammu, the names of Dr. Farooq Abdullah and his son Omar Abdullah figured on top of the list.
It said, “Farooq Abdullah and his son Omar Abdullah had illegally occupied state land measuring 7 Kanals and 7 Marlas under Khasra No 4,5,6 in village Sunjwan of Bahu Tehsil in Jammu district”.
After the news went viral, the Twitter handle of the Jammu and Kashmir National Conference posted a written statement, “The news attributing to sources that Farooq Abdullah is a beneficiary of the Roshni Act is completely false and is being spread with a malicious intent.”
“Farooq Abdullah has not availed of the Roshni Scheme for either his residence in Srinagar or in Jammu and anyone who says otherwise is lying. The fact that they are using sources to plant this story shows that it has no legs to stand on,” the National Conference statement stated.
Dr. Abdullah also made a brief statement while speaking to a news channel. He said “It is only propaganda against us. I just can’t understand what they want to do? Sunjwan colony was not raised by me…It was raised long back. Don’t we have the right to live?”
Official sources revealed initially Dr. Abdullah had purchased only three kanals of land but at the time of taking the possession of this private land, he encroached upon more than seven kanals of nearby prime state and forest land.
Several other senior National Conference leaders and close friends of Dr. Abdullah also acquired adjoining plots in the close vicinity of his mansion and constructed their bungalows.
According to the list uploaded on the website, National Conference leader, Syed Ali Akhoon, Sajjad Kitchloo, Congress leader Abdul Majid Wani, former Chairman of J&K Bank M Y Khan, Aslam Goni, a former close aide of Dr. Abdullah, Haroon Choudhary, Ashfaq Mir son of a retired Judge and hotelier Mushtaq Chaya too had encroached the state/forest land in the same locality.
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This is the true color of entire Sonia Congress and its associate Parties like NC. They are family connected , non-Hindu origin looters of Indian Public Lands all over the Country. First thing fuck them so badly in Jail that father and Son are not able to stand of their own. The entire caucus of looters looted the country under the cover of rule. These Bastards and Bitches must be shown to their real place in a solitary jail like Andaman. They were lickers of Colonial British and learnt to loot like British. The way those starved British came to India, in the same manner these traitors must be sent to Andaman Jails, where there is no Human living.
This daylight robbery of public property by politicians and bureaucrats in Jammu was committed with a view to change the demography of Jammu as per a PIL submitted by some citizens. The J&K High Court has upheld it and asked to publish the encroachers’ name to shame them publicly. Caught red handed they are using political vendetta and Muslim victim card to save themselves.
He is not “Dr.’ Farooq Abdullah. His ‘Daku’ Farooq Abdullah