Months after the government claimed to have retrieved 900 kanals from encroachers along the Tawi, the land is being reoccupied with the active support of some influential persons using the Gujjar community and people from the erstwhile Doda district as a “mask”. Most of the land belongs to the Jammu Development Authority, Irrigation and Flood Control Department and Forest Department. The PDP-BJP government had launched a major drive to retrieve land from encroachers around the Jammu city. Sources said the encroachment was taking place in a planned manner with the…
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