Anantnag district administration retrieved 26 Kanals of land belonging to Kashmiri Pandits in the Bijbehara.
The drive was carried in Thajiwara village where a famous shrine of Kashmiri Pandits is located.
“There were a total of 26 Kanal of Kashmiri Pandit land on Khasra No 144, 145 and 143. A total of 22 Kanal land have been completely retrieved and the process to recover the remaining four Kanal is on,” Tehsildar Bijbehara Ghulam Rasool told media persons.
He said that they would be issuing summons to a person who is in possession of four Kanal of land.
“A structure raised over it would be first demolished and then the land will be retrieved too,” the Tehsildar said.
He said that so far 50 Kanal of Kashmiri Pandit land had been recovered alone in Bijbehara tehsil.
“It is an ongoing process and in this regard, we have formed a migrant cell. We are prioritising the files related to the migrants,” the Tehsildar said.
He said that the information regarding the migrant property was updated every year.
Earlier this week the district administration carried out 22 evictions from properties of Kashmiri Pandits in the district.