In Indian illegally occupied Jammu and Kashmir, Kashmiri Pandit migrants, mostly the younger gen-eration, are misusing the online grievance portal launched by the authorities by filing fake complaints to lay claim on the land their grandparents have willfully sold to people in the Kashmir Valley.
The online grievance portal launched by the authorities is flooded with fake complaints by the Kashmiri Pandits, hampering the smooth function-ing of the revenue department.
“We have not come across any genuine com-plaint where an individual has illegally occupied a Kashmiri Pandit land or any other property in Kashmir.
In the majority of the complaints, we found the land or house has been sold willfully, with complete legal documentation,” a revenue depart-ment official told media.
He said that fake com-plaints have been registered by Pandits about their land and property which otherwise they have sold legally to the people.
The revenue department has taken up the issue of fake complaints from Kashmiri Pandits with the authorities to streamline the process without putting extra burden on the officials.
A revenue official from Islamabad district told a local news agency Kashmir Dot Com (KDC) that these fake and false complaints have overburdened the revenue and administrative officials on the ground.
“Officials get busy in assessing and verify-ing the credentials of these complaints which later turn out to be fake,” he said.
The official said, “Assessing these fake com-plaints consumes our time and workforce. When we send the staff to assess the complaints, they are found fake as the owners have sold property and land to people after complying with all legal and revenue formalities.”
A lot of people in Kashmir have bought migrant Pandit land and property legally and through right-ful means under Migrant Property Act.—KMS
