New Delhi
As Kashmiris across the world observed a Black Day to mark India’s occupation of Jammu and Kashmir on Tuesday, New Delhi added insult to injury by notifying a law allowing any Indian citizen to buy land in their occupied homeland.
According to the Times of India and other outlets, the Indian Ministry of Home Affairs has notified new laws for the occupied territory, called UT of Jammu and Kashmir Re-organisation (Adaptation of Central Laws) Third Order 2020.
The publication reported that the notification allows any Indian citizen to purchase land in Indian-occupied Jammu and Kashmir. The new law has removed the condition that individuals purchasing land in the occupied territory be a permanent resident of the occupied valley.
The move has already been rejected in Kashmir, with the former chief minister of the occupied territory describing it as “unacceptable amendments to the land ownership laws” of the occupied valley.
“Even the tokenism of domicile has been done away with when purchasing non-agricultural land and transfer of agricultural land has been made easier. J&K is now up for sale and the poorer small land holding owners will suffer,” former IOJK chief minister Omar Abdullah said in a tweet.
India has, since August of last year, had its eyes on illegally changing the demography of the occupied territory, ever since Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s government revoked Article 370 of their constitution to attempt to annex the disputed territory.
