Residents demand full access to their properties

JAMMU, June 15 -- Residents of villages Kanyala, Kah Pota and adjoining areas in tehsil Dansal of district Jammu have urged the civil administration to either grant permission to them to enjoy full access to their properties or else make some alternative arrangement for them.

Residents said, "We are being dispossessed of our property rights due to Army setting up an ammunition depot at Nagrota."

"The authorities had banned constructions in our area long ago. Now, the Army is not even allowing us to renovate our kachha houses," they added.

Sources said that army authorities had banned all sorts of construction, renovation or modification works on the private ownership property and land encircling one kilometer area of the Ammunition Depot...