India has introduced amendments to the Land Law for Occupied Jammu and Kashmir under which a citizen of any state of India will be able to acquire land in the Occupied Territories.
According to local media reports in India, a notification issued by the Indian Ministry of Home Affairs said that the new law, Union Territory of Jammu and Kashmir Reorganization (Adaptation of Central Laws) Third Order 2020 would come into force immediately. Earlier, only permanent residents of Occupied Jammu and Kashmir could buy land in the region, but now this law has also been repealed. Note that on August 5, 2019, an article from the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) After the abolition of the special status of Occupied Jammu and Kashmir under 370, many other laws have also been introduced. The BJP government had enacted a law that a citizen of any state of India could build property and get employment in the Occupied Territories. can do.
India has introduced a controversial new law at a time when occupied Jammu and Kashmir and Kashmiris around the world are celebrating October 27 as a black day in protest against the Indian occupation, when the Indian Army entered the region 73 years ago in 1947. Reacting to the controversial law on Occupied Kashmir, Federal Minister Safran and Kashmir Committee Chairman Shehryar Afridi said that the Indian government had introduced another brutal law on Black Day and was reminding that Indian occupying forces have all the rights of Kashmiris. He said that now even Indians and foreigners have been allowed to buy lands in illegally occupied Jammu and Kashmir by India.
On the other hand, former Chief Minister of Occupied Jammu and Kashmir Omar Abdullah in his statement on Twitter also strongly condemned the move of the BJP government. He said that the amendments regarding the ownership of lands in Occupied Jammu and Kashmir are unacceptable. The Domicile Act also facilitated the purchase of non-agricultural land and transfer of agricultural land until it was abolished. Omar Abdullah said that now occupied Jammu and Kashmir has been put up for sale, leaving the poor landowners Occupied Jammu and Kashmir has been protesting against India's actions, but large-scale sanctions and lockdowns continue after August 5, 2019. Narendra Modi's government in occupied Jammu and Kashmir earlier this year. A new domicile law was enacted under which a person residing in Jammu and Kashmir for 15 years can declare the area occupied in his domicile as his native area.
The Jammu and Kashmir Civil Services Act clarifies that a person declaring the occupied area in the domicile as his native area must have resided in the central area of Jammu and Kashmir for 15 years or education for a period of 7 years. Have obtained or have appeared in class 10 or 12 in an educational institution located in the area and have appeared for the examination. Earlier, Article 35A of the Constitution of Jammu and Kashmir stated that the definition of a citizen was only for the person occupied in Jammu and Kashmir. A domicile of Kashmir will be issued which is registered as a migrant with the Relief and Rehabilitation Commissioner in the Occupied Territories.
The new law also includes central government officials, including All India Services Officers, PSUs and central government autonomous agencies, public sector banks and central universities, central university officials and recognized central government research institutes. This includes children who have served in Jammu and Kashmir for a period of 10 years or children of parents who meet any of the requirements in the section. Locals must also apply for a new domicile for permanent citizenship. For this, they have to show Permanent Residence Certificate (PRC), which will be applicable from 1927 while PRC will become meaningless after that. Protests started after the implementation of this law in India because 200 million Muslims Fears that Narendra Modi is trying to make India a Hindu state, which Narendra Modi denied.
