Anantnag, Feb 02: Revenue officers of Tehsil Qazigund Thursday retrieved encroached land from the relatives of Peerzada Ghulam Ahmad Shah, a former forest minister and prominent NC leader, as part of their anti-encroachment campaign against powerful encroachers.
According to officials, the land is registered as Kahcharai in Estate Kurigam of Tehsil Qazigund and measures 1 kanal by 18 marlas. They claimed that a relative of prominent NC leader and former minister Peerzada Ghulam Ahmad Shah had encroached on the land.
The aforementioned plot of land, which is worth more than Rs 1 crore, was illegally encroached upon and is just one of several such areas that were freed from the control of powerful land grabbers.