Biased encroachment drive, only targeting poor!
- The officers of revenue department are commanding officers for poor people but for rich and powerful people they look like insignificant.
- Some of the revenue officers are so corrupt that they do not deserve to be called as officer and they must be identified and thrown out from the department at earliest.
- Often the senior officers of revenue department write letters to their junior officers with specific words ‘Matter should be treated Urgent,’ ‘Matter is very urgent’ and so on but their junior mocks at them silently, which is very sad trend.
- No one can encroach an inch of land without the involvement of revenue officers and it is as true as the sun rises every day. This should be taken seriously.
jj correspondent
Jammu, Jan 12: Will Revenue department act against the big land-robbers or it acts against the poor people? Why the Revenue department having selective approach for anti-encroachment process? Why the then tehsildar Mandal has not taken the matter seriously, when he received a letter from office Divisional Commissioner Jammu on 10-03-2022 over this issue? Why are not the revenue officers honouring the directions of their senior officers and only busy in defying their orders? What is the actual meaning of ‘Matter be treated as urgent’ for the revenue officers? Why not the government identify such corrupt and habitual offender officers of revenue department who do not care for the directions of their senior officers? Why not such corrupt and habitual offender officers of revenue department thrown out by declaring them deadwood officers and book them under relevant sections of law? These are very pricking questions irritating in the mind of people and senior officers of revenue department must come out and reply such questions to satisfy the people for their integrity.
This is the story of land measuring 588 kanals Kah Charia and Shamlat situated at village Thalwal, tehsil Mandal falling under Khasra No 314 (old khasra No 212/22), which has been encroached upon by the land dacoits and then its status had been changed fraudulently by the corrupt officers to give undue benefit to the land robbers. The said land was Kah Charai and such land was not entiteled to be used or encroached upon by any person but some persons having muscle and money power have bought some revenue officers by bribing them to dance on their tune and they did the same.
It is pertinent to mention here in bold words that no one can encroach an inch of land without involvement of the revenue officers and this menace should be checked by the government and by Lt Governor himself.
In this case the people of the said locality has approached the office of Deputy Commissioner Jammu and consequently the said office has written a letter to Tehsildar Settlement Jammu vide its office letter No DCJ/SQ/04-05/2234 (in the photocopy the number is illegible so there may some variation, I pardon for that but the date is correct) dated 04-01-2005 to remove the encroachment by using the power vested in you under section 133 of the Land revenue Act of 1996. But the then Tehsildar Settlement Jammu had not paid heed to the directions being issued by the office of DC Jammu.
Not only this, once again the people of locality has approached the office of DC Jammu on 11-05-2005 for the same issue and once again the a letter from office of DC Jammu written to Tehsildar Settlement Jammu vide its office No DCJ/SQ/05-06/285 dated 18-05-2005 to remove the encroachment but again the then Tehsildar Settlement Jammu had defied the directions from the office of DC Jammu, which is a very serious concern and this should be viewed seriously by the senior revenue officers.
The issue not stopped here, the people of locality approached to the office of Divisional Commissioner Jammu which is the top administrative office of Jammu region to get the land vacated from the illegal encroachment made by some land grabbers and they are selling the land openly. After receiving the complaints from the people, the office of Divisional Commissioner Jammu has shot a letter to Tehsildar Mandal vide its office No 502/Misc/Jammu/22 dated 10-03-2022 ‘to enquire the matter and submit factual report to this office with your specific comments.’ One thing is very clear in this sentence that the Assistant Commissioner (Central), With Divisional Commissioner Jammu Dr Pritam Lal was compelled to write these words ‘the factual report’, which clearly indicates that he was fearing the report may or may not be factual so he used the word factual report, which is very serious in nature in revenue department and same should be dealt with firmly. These words shown that the Assistant Commissioner (Central), With Divisional Commissioner Jammu Dr Pritam Lal was having some doubt in his mind and it indicates may be some reports submitted by the subordinate officers may or may not factual, and it should be enquired thoroughly.
Moreover, in his letter Assistant Commissioner (Central), With Divisional Commissioner Jammu Dr Pritam Lal specifically mentioned ‘Matter be treated as urgent’ but since 10-03-2022 the matter is not being treated casually and not to talk of urgently. This is grave embarrassment for the office of Divisional Commissioner Jammu that a Tehsildar not take its direction seriously.
Now the issue is that the officers who are responsible for silently allowing to carry on encroachment at any period of time must be identified and should be sent behind the bars with lifer punishment and also those officers who defied the directions of senior officers in regard of anti-encroachment must be booked in same manner and immediately thrown out from the department. No person can encroach an inch of land without involvement of revenue officers it is very much clear.
