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New Delhi: The Solicitor General on Thursday told the Supreme Court that no coercive action will be taken for now against the beneficiaries under the ‘Roshni Act’.
The court was hearing a submission made before a bench headed by Justice N V Ramana during the hearing of petitions filed against the High Court verdict by persons who claimed to be a lawful leaseholders.
The Solicitor General Tushar Mehta told Court that the State government could not come in the way of common people or those who are lawful occupants, “There is no question of that. But land grabbers cannot be spared,” he said.
Justice NV Ramana then asked whether an order directing no coercive action be taken during pendency of the proceedings can be recorded.
Solicitor General assured Court at this juncture that no such order was necessary.
The bench, also comprising Justices Surya Kant and Aniruddha Bose, adjourned the hearing of the petitions to the last week of January. Meanwhile, the top court urged the High Court to consider the review petitions against the October 9 judgment on December 21. The SC observed that the pendency of the instant SLPs will not come in the way of any petitioners approaching HighCourt in review.
‘Roshni Act’ is the popular name for the ‘Jammu and Kashmir State Land (Vesting of Ownership to the Occupants) Act, 2001’, which regularized the encroachments and unauthorized occupations on public land till 1990 on the occupants paying the market rates prevailing as on that year.
