Jammu. Advocate Ankur Sharma said that the notification of the Jammu and Kashmir Waqf Board issued in 1985 was challenged in the High Court in 2018. In which more than 500 kanals of land in Poonch district were notified as Waqf property. Due to the willful delay in responding to the court notices by the Revenue Officers concerned, the matter is still pending. Sharma said that in 1985, the Waqf Board arbitrarily notified major land of more than 500 kanals in Poonch city as its property. He said that the said notification also included the offices of the Deputy Commissioner and District Information Officer.
Advocate Kaba, in 2012, Deputy Commissioner Poonch wrote a letter to the government, stating that all the land notified by the Board in 1985 in Poonch city was registered as Waqf land in the Land Revenue Record. was not done. Following this, in 2018, the Waqf Board started issuing notices to the occupiers of these lands, stating that the land was being illegally occupied by them and initiated action against them, Sharma said. Will go
He filed a petition in the Jammu and Kashmir High Court on behalf of the people in Poonch and in the petition, Sharma challenged the 1985 Waqf Board notification that it should be quashed. He further said that the land given by the Waqf Board was arbitrarily allotted to benefit a particular community, causing massive loss to the public. The advocate has alleged that in order to please a certain community, the revenue officials are delaying the reply to court notices thereby trying to derail the process of justice. (IANS)
