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  • Demolition drive against ‘illegal’ commercial complex triggers protests in J&K’s Kathua

    Demolition drive against ‘illegal’ commercial complex triggers protests in J&K’s Kathua

    By PTI
    KATHUA/ JAMMU:     Authorities attempted to carry out a demolition drive and partially damaged an “illegal” commercial complex in Jammu and Kashmir’s Kathua district on Friday, prompting traders to stage a protest against the administration.

    The owners of the building alleged that the demolition drive was carried out without issuing any notice to them.

    They added that they have filed a plea in the high court and the hearing is scheduled for Friday.

    Amid a heavy deployment of police personnel, men and machines of the Kathua Municipal Council, led by its Chief Executive Officer (CEO) Santosh Kotwal, attempted to carry out the demolition drive at the complex located on the Shaheedi Chowk road, sources said.

    The owner of the building, Mohinder Mahajan, reached the spot and raised objections to the government’s action. He asked the CEO to show the demolition notice.

    The CEO failed to produce it, resulting in anger among the traders’ community and triggering protests, the sources said.

    Authorities alleged that the owners of the building had bribed officials to raise the structure illegally, resulting in heated arguments between the owners and officials.

    Police had to intervene to avert a clash between the two sides. The Beopar Mandal Kathua has voiced concern over the development.

    Members of the organisation staged a protest against Kathua Deputy Commissioner Rakesh Minhas and raised anti-BJP slogans.

    The administration’s move came only a few days after the owners of the building converted the residential complex into a commercial one.

    The municipal council had served a notice to the building owners. The matter was under the deputy commissioner’s consideration.

    “We have filed an application in the high court. The hearing is scheduled for Friday itself. It is unfortunate that they damaged the structure without issuing any notice,” one of the owners told reporters.

    The protesters have sat on a dharna, blocking a highway in the district. Police are requesting them to disperse to ensure a smooth flow of traffic.

  • Illegal agents in Bhubaneswar AIIMS, 2 arrested

    Illegal agents in Bhubaneswar AIIMS, 2 arrested

    Bhubaneswar: Two Bengali brokers were arrested from AIIMS Bhubaneswar on Friday. They used to target patients and cheat them. They were allegedly staying in a rented house in Khandagiri area.

    They cheated people off thousands of rupees under the false pretext of helping them. They used to charge rupees Rs. 2000 to Rs. 5000 per person.

    They used to extort money from people by pretending to get tickets and get treatment at the facility on an urgent basis.

    The Khandagiri police have arrested the illegal agents after the plain clothes police observed them and their activities for almost more than a week.

    The two brokers have confessed their guilt before the police. Khandagiri police is investigating into the angle as to who else is related to them. The police has appealed to the public to inform the police if they come across such brokers.

    If anyone sees such a person, the public can inform the police on the police helpline number 7077798111. 

    Last year that is in 2022 November, as many as 12 illegal ticket agents had been arrested from AIIMS hospital situated here in Bhubaneswar.

    The Khandagiri police had got the information from locals that these illegal agents were involved in fraud relating to tickets in AIIMS, which is one of the leading hospitals

    According to reliable sources these agents were buying doctor consultation tickets from the counter and selling them at a higher price to the patients.

    Sources say, the tickets for doctor consultation at AIIMS is free but, these illegal agents used to take the tickets and sell them to patients at as much as 4000 to 5000 rupees each.

    A senior police officer back then added that these raids shall be conducted on a regular basis and more agents shall be arrested.

  • ‘Will not allow land jihad’: Uttarakhand CM promises to demolish ‘illegal’ shrines

    ‘Will not allow land jihad’: Uttarakhand CM promises to demolish ‘illegal’ shrines

    Uttarakhand chief minister Pushkar Singh Dhami said his government will demolish all the ‘mazars’ (tombs) and other structures illegally built in the state. Addressing a function in Kaladhungi in the Nainital district, Dhami said the government has identified more than 1,000 places where such illegal structures have been built.
    “There are more than 1000 such places in this state where tombs have been made but no remains were being found under them,” Dhami said.

    “We have said that we are not against anyone, but we will not allow forcible occupation anywhere here. We will not allow land jihad to proceed anywhere,” he added.

    The state government over the last two years has been acting tough on the encroachments over government land.

    He stressed that the BJP government will not harm anyone but will also not allow appeasement of any community.

    “Because we are the ones who believe in the law, we are not going to do any work to harm anyone. But we will not allow anyone to be appeased either. We will work hard to curb appeasement,” Dhami said.

    Dhami was in Nainital to inaugurate and lay the foundation stone of 36 schemes worth ₹ 95 crores.

    Dhami said the state has enacted a stricter law to stop forced conversions in the state, apart from constituting a committee for the implementation of the Uniform Civil Code (UCC). The Uttarakhand assembly recently passed an amendment bill to make the anti-conversion law in the state more stringent by enhancing punishment for forced conversions and for religious conversion of two or more people defined as “mass conversion”.

    In December last year, the forest officials started a crackdown on illegal religious structures and demolished 15 tombs in the Dehradun forest division at that time. According to senior forest officials, around 293 religious structures had come up in the protected forests of the state according to the departmental survey.