Jammu, Oct 27: In the year 2011, a Public Interest Litigation was filed in the High Court flagging the large-scale illegal occupation of land owned by JDA in various parts of Jammu and Samba in which the petitioner alleged that huge tracts meant for public infrastructure, housing and planned development had been encroached upon with the connivance or negligence of officials.

In the PIL, the High Court issued a series of directions to the JDA and the Government, calling for identification, demarcation and retrieval of encroached land & High Court even went on record several times expressing serious displeasure over the slow progress and sought personal affidavits from senior officers.

However, even nearly 14 years after the High Court first intervened to save encroached land belonging to

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