PoK, Pak visitors not acquiring property, SC told
Visitors who come to J&K in the Muzaffarabad-Srinagar bus from Pakistan and Pakistan-occupied Kashmir neither acquire evacuees’ properties nor engage in subversive activities, the Centre told the Supreme Court on Thursday.
By Sanjay K Singh, TNN |
NEW DELHI: Visitors who come to J&K in the Muzaffarabad-Srinagar bus from Pakistan and Pakistan-occupied Kashmir neither acquire evacuees’ properties nor engage in subversive activities, the Centre told the Supreme Court on Thursday.
Refuting such allegations the Centre has sought dismissal of a petition filed by the Panthers Party. Supporting the state government on the issue, in an affidavit, the Centre said there were adequate safeguards in the Evacuees Property Act, 2006, to protect properties in the possession of displaced persons from PoK.
The affidavit refuted the allegation that such it was a ‘surreptitious design’ meant to give a fillip to militancy. The state government was not hand-in-glove with visitors ‘who were being allowed to move applications for restoration of properties,’ as alleged in the petition, the affidavit said.
The Centre stood by the submission of the state government that a visitor who comes in a bus from PoK invariably stays in the state for a short duration and was not covered under ‘permanent rehabilitation’ in the state which is a prerequisite for making an application by an evacuee to have his property restored.
There is no grain of truth in the allegation that such visitors under the garb of applications for the restoration of evacuees’ properties would deprive displaced persons from PoK who are at present allotted those properties, the affidavit said.
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The Centre is satisfied that the state of J&K is not resorting to the Evacuees Property Act to overcome the stay imposed by the apex court on the operation of the Jammu & Kashmir Grant of Permit for Resettlement in (or Permanent return to) the State Act, 1982, the affidavit added.Download
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