Anantnag: Continuing the anti-encroachment drive against influential encroachers, revenue officials of Tehsil Qazigund Thursday, acting decisively, retrieved encroached land from kin of former Forest Minister and Senior NC Leader, PeerzadaGhulam Ahmad Shah.
The land, measuring 1 kanal and 18 marlas is registered as Kahcharai in Estate Kurigam of Tehsil Qazigund. As per revenue officials, the land was encroached by a kin of senior NC leader and Ex Minister PeerzadaGhulam Ahmad Shah.
The said piece of land, valuing more than Rs 1 crore, had been illegally encroached upon and is one of the many such patches of land retrieved from clutches of influential land grabbers.
