Outsiders bought 34 properties in J&K after Art 370 repeal

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Union Minister of State for Home Nityanand Rai.
Union Minister of State for Home Nityanand Rai.

 

New Delhi

Thirty-four outsiders have purchased properties in Jammu and Kashmir since the abrogation of Article 370 of the constitution, Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) informed the Lok Sabha on Tuesday.

"As per the information provided by the government of Jammu and Kashmir, 34 persons from outside the Jammu and Kashmir have bought properties in UT of J-K after the abrogation of Article 370. The properties are located in Jammu, Reasi, Udhampur and Ganderbal districts," Union Minister of State for Home Affairs Nityanand Rai said in a written reply to a query of Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) leader Hazi Fazlur Rehman.

On 15 December last, the MHA had informed that “seven plots of land” have been purchased by persons from outside, meaning thereby that 27 more people have bought the properties in J&K in last three months.

The previous purchases were restricted to Jammu division, the MHA informed that the properties have been bought in central Kashmir’s Ganderbal district also. 

Rehman had sought to know the number of people from outside the Jammu and Kashmir who have bought property in J&K after the abrogation of Article 370 and the location of the areas where the properties have been purchased.

 

In August last year, the Home Ministry informed Parliament that two persons from outside J&K have purchased properties in the Union Territory following the scrapping of Article 370, which barred outsiders from buying land and property there.

The central government had abrogated Article 370 on August 5, 2019 and bifurcated the state into two Union Territories-- Jammu and Kashmir with an Assembly and Ladakh without one.