IIOJK administration seize properties of two more Kashmiris in Srinagar
Srinagar: Further continuing its colonial measures aimed at dispossessing Kashmiris, the New Delhi-imposed administration in Indian illegally occupied Jammu and Kashmir has seized immovable properties of two more persons in Srinagar district.
According to Kashmir Media Service, police, acting on the orders of the BJP-led Indian government-appointed Lieutenant Governor Manoj Sinha, confiscated a three-storey residential house at Nundresh Colony in Srinagar belonging to Sikander Firdous. In a separate similar operation, a single-storey house owned by Ghulam Hassan Butt was seized in Kral Khud area of the district.
The value of the confiscated properties has been estimated at around INR 80 lakh and INR 70 lakh respectively. Authorities claimed the properties were acquired through illegal means.
Following the abrogation of IIOJK’s special status in August 2019, Indian authorities have seized hundreds of properties, including houses, shops, land, offices and other assets of Kashmiris on various pretexts.
These measures, Kashmir watchers say, are aimed at weakening Kashmiris economically and altering the territory’s demography by allotting these properties to non-local Hindus.
