Sabir, Gareeb Dasi cannot be deprived of settled rights by issuing 1944 land exchange orders: Jammu and Kashmir High Court
The High Court of Jammu and Kashmir and Ladakh has upheld the enforceability of Government Order No. 60-C of 1944, protecting the vested property rights of landowners whose proprietary lands were acquired by the then princely state for tourism and forest conservation in Pahalgam. In exchange, the affected owners were allotted alternate plots for personal use or construction. The court has now directed the local authorities to process construction permissions…
