Owners claim will be ‘upheld’ if proves genuine, Says Commissioner SMC
By Majid Nabi
SRINAGAR- Commissioner, Srinagar Municipal Corporation (SMC), Athar Amir Khan Friday said that a commercial building, which was sealed at Rampora Chattabal, last week will be ‘unsealed’, provided the claims made by the owner of the said building proved ‘genuine’.
The civic body head said the claims of the owner will be ‘upheld’, if the building raised on the land measuring one kanal would have been sold to him through proper auction. He said the revenue department will be accordingly informed, if due process has been followed in the matter.
“Obviously the claims made by the owner of the building will be upheld if everything is in order, and action in this regard will be initiated as per rules. Factual position will be intimated to the revenue Department accordingly,” Commissioner SMC said.
Development came six days after the Revenue Department retrieved land measuring on kanal under Khasra No. 437 Min and sealed a commercial building raised on the said land at Rampora Chattabal.
Owner of the building, while contesting the claims that the land measuring one kanal which was retrieved at Rampora Chattabal was state property, asked the government to verify facts before taking such ‘weird’ actions.
He said the land was allotted to him by the SMC in the year 2007 against cash payment of rupees forty two lakh and fifty thousand 42, 50, 000. He said the Sub-Divisional Magistrate has shot a letter to the SMC to know whether it had really allotted the land to the owner or not.
“This is strange, how could a senior official make such claims, has he ever gone through the official records. We have submitted a 150 page High Court judgment way back in 2018 and I hope the building will be unsealed soon,” he added.
The operational part of the HC judgment reads “The fact of filing a suit for perpetual injection is admitted and it is further avert that out of the aforesaid land, the corporation has sold one kanal of land against the payment of Rs 42, 50,000 during an open auction in the year 2004”
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