Jammu & Kashmir High Court gives landmark judgement in “Roshni Land Scam”, orders CBI probe

The Vishwa Hindu Parishad (VHP) in Jammu and Kashmir has welcomed the order given by the High Court on Friday (October 16), wherein the court has ordered a CBI probe in the Roshni land scam.

 The Bench of Chief Justice Gita Mittal and Justice Rajesh Bindal ruled, “Given the nature of the crimes, the status of those who are involved, including the allegations of involvement of Ministers, legislators, bureaucrats, Government officials as well as the local police officials of Union Territory of Jammu and Kashmir, it is essential to do complete justice in the matter and to ensure confidence in the minds of the public that, in order to enable a fair, proper and complete investigation, the CBI should be requested to take up and proceed in the matter in accordance with law.”

This is said to be the biggest scam in the history of Jammu and Kashmir, and is estimated to have cost the state exchequer as high as ₹25,000 crores.
 
A Press Statement issued by Rajesh Gupta, Working President, VHP J&K and Ladakh reads,  

J&K High Court, while declaring the infamous ‘Roshni Scheme’ (popularly known as ‘Roshni Scam’), as invalid and illegal; have entrusted its further investigation to CBI. With this, general public of J&K is hoping for the retrieval of all the state land, and also legal remedies for conspirators and beneficiaries.
 
In 2001, the then government of J&K, announced with much hype, a self-proclaimed revolutionary, mother of all schemes, aimed to generate a revenue of ₹25,000 crores to be used to set up hydropower projects in J&K (which actually generated only less than ₹100 crores), by giving ownership of State land under illegal occupation of encroachers.  The Rules of the Act, illegitimately, were amended at the whims and fancies of people in power multiple times, by all major Kashmir centric politicos till 2007 to include their supporters and kins as beneficiaries.

As detected by Comptroller & Auditor General of India in the year 2013, in a deep contrast between Jammu & Kashmir regions, ownership rights of approximately 33,000 kanals of state land were vested to state blessed encroachers in 10 districts of Kashmir province but around 6 lacs kanals of land (around 20 times that of Kashmir province) was regularised in favor of encroachers (with a sizeable number belonging to different districts of Kashmir region) in 10 districts of Jammu province. In Kashmir 100% of the beneficiaries were Muslims as Hindus stands forcefully expelled from the region but surprisingly in Jammu province where Hindus account for 75% of the population, they comprised of less than 10% of the beneficiaries.

Hon’ble High Court’s order for a conclusive investigation into all aspects of this scam by CBI, along with strictures on modus operandi of investigation agencies of erstwhile state of J&K, with directions to the U.T. Government to extend all cooperation to CBI for their investigation processes has raised hope among law-abiding citizens of J&K U.T., who were earlier treated as children of lesser God.
 
Kashmir centric leadership of J&K comprising all political parties who have now joined hands with their self proclaimed ‘Gupkar Declaration’ have not only collided for land jihad for demographic change of J&K and now have adopted a criminal silence on the expose.