Click to play videoNew Delhi: The Jammu and Kashmir government has imposed a ban on the sale of temple land and property belonging to Kashmiri pandits in the Valley.
A month ago, CNN-IBN had reported that temple properties were being illegally sold or leased out.
CNN-IBN had also reported that police, allegedly on the instructions of temple’s management, were barring the pandits from the Ramji temple in Srinagar.
The pandits claim that since the temple trusts have not had elections over the last 17 years, caretakers and outsiders have been controlling temple assets worth Rs 10,000 crore.
Kashmiri Pandit Sangharsh Samiti President Sanjay Tickoo had claimed last month, “Some of the trustees and other samitis which are from our community and some non-locals state subject holders try to grab these properties, and it is still going on. The buyers are naturally from the majority community.”
Tickoo had also alleged that the care takers furnish documents claiming to be the mahants and the sole trustees of the property to the revenue officials.
"The revenue officials—right from the Divisional Commissioner to the Tehsiladar—do not verify the documents that these caretakers and outsiders produce before them,” Tickoo had said last month.
However, the officials had denied any wrongdoing.
Divisional Commissioner Kashmir, Mehboob Iqbal, had clarified that the property controllers are “authorised” to sell the property if the constitution allows them to sell their land or lease it out. “It used to happen earlier too. However, if there are any specific cases of misdeed, we will look into that,'' Iqbal had claimed.
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