Roshni Act Declared 'Null and Void'- Land to Be Retrieved by Admin Within Six Months

November 1, 2020 by News Desk

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A few days after the Goverment of India passed the controversial land Law, the J&K administration has declared the Roshni Act as null and void and said that it would retrieve entire land in six months.

Earlier the CBI had ordered a probe into the alleged scam, in which around 20.55 lakh kanals of land (1,2,50 hectares) to occupants of which 15.85 percent of the land was approved for vesting of ownership rights.

The scheme was finally repealed by Satya Pal Malik, the former governor of the erstwhile state of Jammu Kashmir, on November 28, 2018.

Earlier on 09 October, a division bench of Chief Justice of High Court, Gita Mittal and Justice Rajesh Bindal ordered the CBI probe into irregularities in the scheme and directed the CBI to file a status report every eight weeks.

“The Jammu Kashmir administration has decided to implement the high court order in which it declared the Jammu Kashmir State Land (Vesting of Ownership to the Occupants) Act, 2001, as amended from time to time as unconstitutional, contrary to law and unsustainable,” an official spokesman said.

Roshni scheme or the Roshini Act, was believed to be a revolutionary step that had the twin objectives of generating resources for financing power projects and conferment of proprietary rights to occupants of state land.

According to the reports, after the elimination of the Roshni Act, under the new order, the revenue department will collect the details of the government land on the basis of January 1, 2001 and register it on the website.

Apart from this, the names of illegal occupiers of government lands will also be made public.

It will also have to give details of receipt of an application under the Roshni Act, assessment of land, the amount deposited by the beneficiary, the order passed under the Act.