Srinagar, September 24, 2021 (PPI-OT):In Indian illegally occupied Jammu and Kashmir, Kashmiri Pandit migrants, mostly the younger generation, are misusing the online grievance portal launched by the authorities by filing fake complaints to lay claim on the land their grandparents have willfully sold to people in the Kashmir Valley.

The online grievance portal launched by the authorities is flooded with fake complaints by the Kashmiri Pandits, hampering the smooth functioning of the revenue department.

“We have not come across any genuine complaint where an individual has illegally occupied a Kashmiri Pandit land or any other property in Kashmir. In the majority of the complaints, we found the land or house has been sold willfully, with complete legal documentation,” a revenue department official told media. He said that fake complaints have been registered by Pandits about their land and property which otherwise they have sold legally to the people.

The revenue department has taken up the issue of fake complaints from Kashmiri Pandits with the authorities to streamline the process without putting extra burden on the officials.

A revenue official from Islamabad district told a local news agency Kashmir Dot Com (KDC) that these fake and false complaints have overburdened the revenue and administrative officials on the ground. “Officials get busy in assessing and verifying the credentials of these complaints which later turn out to be fake,” he said.

The official said, “Assessing these fake complaints consumes our time and workforce. When we send the staff to assess the complaints, they are found fake as the owners have sold property and land to people after complying with all legal and revenue formalities.”

A lot of people in Kashmir have bought migrant Pandit land and property legally and through rightful means under Migrant Property Act. “But some unscrupulous persons are filing fake complaints on the portal which is overburdened our staff. Only genuine complaints must be filed so that we utilize our time and staff in a judicious way,” officials said.

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