NEW DELHI, Aug 17: The Supreme Court on Monday asked the Jammu and Kashmir administration to pay compensation and rentals to one of the descendants of farmers whose land was forcibly taken more than 73 years ago for setting up a police station at Kangan in Ganderbal without any acquisition proceedings.
A bench comprising Chief Justice Surya Kant and Justices Joymalya Bagchi and V Mohana took note of the plea of one Abdul Rashid Wani who approached the top court through lawyer Mahfooz Ahsan Nazki to challenge the Jammu and Kashmir and Ladakh High Court’s 2022 decision.
The high court had dismissed a writ petition seeking possession of land taken over for a police station in Ganderbal district in 1953, holding that the claim suffered from gross and unexplained delay of 68 years.
On Monday, Supreme Court considered the fervent pleas of Wani that though there was a delay, he should not suffer on account of state action which was illegal.
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