Srinagar, May 22 -- In order to arrest the land transfer scandal at rehabilitation sites for Dal-dwellers, the J&K High Court today directed prohibition of all land and residential flat transfers, alienations and parting of possessions by allottees to third parties.
The court directed Lakes and Waterways Development Authority (LAWDA) to take immediate steps towards prohibiting all land transfers, alienations as well as parting of possession of the plots by Dal-dwellers at the rehabilitation sites to any third person in whichever manner.
A division bench comprising Chief Justice Gita Mittal and Justice Tashi Rabstan hearing a public interest litigation on degradation of the Dal Lake took notice of the reports that some lake inhabitants who...