Vivek Suri's video: ROSHNI ACT ITS FALL OUT POLITICAL-BUREAUCRATIC NEXUS IN J K Illegal Vesting of State Land-HC

A lively debate at TAKE1 Studios was organized with learned panelist like Advocate Sheikh Shakeel, Social Activist, Advocate Ankur Sharma, Chairman IKKJUTT Jammu, Ashwani Chrungoo, Incharge, Department of Political Affairs & Feedback BJP J&K on infamous ROSHNI LAND SCAM in J&K. Roshni Act has worked to facilitate illegal vesting of State lands: J&K HC while ordering CBI probe into Roshni Land scam. The Jammu and Kashmir High Court has ordered a CBI probe in the Roshni land scam case, stated to be the biggest ever in the history of Jammu and Kashmir, and allegedly involving a loss of Rs 25,000-Crores for the State exchequer. The Jammu and Kashmir State Lands (Vesting of Ownership to the Occupants) Act, 2001, popularly dubbed the Roshni Act, was introduced to transfer State lands to private ownership to raise funds so as to finance power projects in the State. However, the Act was later found to be an attempt to change the demography of the entire region. In 2018, the then J&K governor Satya Pal Malik scrapped the law. The Act was repealed as “it failed to realise the desired objectives and there were also reports of misuse of some its provisions.