Properties of two more Kashmiris seized in Srinagar amid continued crackdown
Srinagar: Indian authorities continue to dispossess Kashmiris under various pretexts as immovable properties of two more civilians were seized in Srinagar district of Indian illegally occupied Jammu and Kashmir.
According to Kashmir Media Service, police, acting on the orders of New Delhi-appointed Lieutenant Governor of IIOJK, confiscated a double-storey residential house along with nearly four marlas of land situated at Firdous Colony, Bemina. The property, worth nearly INR 1.5 crore, belongs to Mudasir Ahmad Pir, a resident of Bemina.
In a separate action, police attached another residential house along with land worth approximately INR 50 lakh in Maharajgunj area, belonging to Shafiq Ahmad Khawaja, a resident of Karnah, Kupwara.
The action is part of an ongoing crackdown, including raids, arrests and property seizures, under the so-called “Nasha Mukt Jammu and Kashmir Abhiyan” campaign.
It is worth noting that since the abrogation of occupied Jammu and Kashmir’s special status in August 2019, the BJP-led Indian government has intensified its campaign of seizing homes, land, and other properties of Kashmiris under various pretexts.
Observers say such actions are aimed at economically weakening the local population and gradually altering the territory’s demographic composition through transfer of these assets to non-local Hindus.
