Srinagar, 09-Dec: CPI(M) Secretary Ghulam Nabi Malik has said that the harassment of people by the administration across Jammu and Kashmir in the name of in the name of removal of “encroachments” on Roshni land is highly condemnable and unjustified.The administration is forcibly evicting people, who had been in possession of small portions of Roshni lands for generations and were doing cultivation on it. This is being done despite Additional Solicitor General of India (ASGI) Tushar Mehta making a statement in Supreme Court that the J&K government will not take any coercive measures till the review petition against an earlier court order declared the Roshni Act as unconstitutional are decided by the J&K High Court.Even the government of J&K had filed a review petition against the court order. Mehta appearing for the government of India and government of J&K made a verbal statement in Supreme Bar that the government will not take any coercive measures till the review petition is decided by the J&K High court.
