Jammu, July 23: The Jammu dministration has banned construction activities along the Tawi river and served notices to all land grabbers, officials.
Deputy Commissioner, Jammu issued an order, copy with CTN reads as “In exercise of powers vested in me under section 144 CrPc, I do hereby restrain all persons, agencies, firms or anybody from raising any boundary wall, laying plinth or raising any other pucca or kacha construction (residential or commercial) on all kinds of land in villages Jammu Khas, Rakh Raipur, Chak Ganeshu and Chak Sardar Attar Singh”.
The order will restrain any construction activity on 8,460 kanals of land initially & station house officers had made responsible for implementing the order in their respective jurisdictions and violators should be booked.
According to the order, a major portion of the said state land has been transferred to the JDA and there have been frequent reports of land grabbing in the fragile Nikki Tawi area that have been thwarted by the authorities of district administration, JDA and police
“It has been noticed that some unscrupulous and anti-social elements have attempted to encroach and grab the state land in the garb of private land (which is interspersed in the Nikki Tawi area) by raising boundary walls, laying plinths or raising other constructions,”
It had been also added in the order that since it is not possible to serve individual notices to all the persons concerned, this order is being passed ex-parte.
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