SRINAGAR: A non-state subject fraudulently acquired the Permanent Resident Certificate from the Revenue department in Jammu and Kashmir and even earned crores of rupees by selling somebody else’s property to locals, it has been revealed.
Information provided under Right to Information Act has revealed that Ajab Singh, son of late Gopal Singh, claiming to be the real owner of a large, deserted chunk of land in Magarmal Bagh, Srinagar, does not belong to Jammu and Kashmir.
In 2011, then Divisional Commissioner of Kashmir, had constituted a committee headed by then ADC Srinagar to ascertain the facts about the property.
A local news agency, CNS reports the Committee was directed to find out the real heirs of the owner of the land, General Sahab Bahadur.
Surprisingly, out of eight persons who claimed to be real heirs of land owner, the committee declared Ajab Singh as the real heir of Mr Bhadur. The committee claimed that Ajab Singh resided in Nai Basti, Jammu.
How all this happened is not immediately clear.
However the RTI report has now revealed that Ajab Singh was never a resident of Jammu and Kashmir and he is not even registered in the Migrant list.
Ironically, Mr Singh sold the property – land measuring 6 kanals and 14 marlas and two houses – worth crores of rupees to a few Kashmiri people after providing them fake power of attorney letters.
The District Administration has now imposed a ban on the further sale of the land and has said that the land would be deemed as government property in case no real of owner of the land comes forward.
It is not clear how the people who purchased the property intend to proceed in this matter.
