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A Hindu neighbour connected Friday (November 28, 2025) came guardant with a crippled of onshore for the Muslim writer whose location was demolished by the Jammu Development Authority (JDA) connected Thursday (November 27, 2025). Several governmental parties and civilian nine groups visited the household to condemn “selective targeting”.
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Kuldeep Sharma, a nonmigratory of Jammu’s Narwal, offered onshore to writer Arfaz Daing, whose location constructed 40 years agone was demolished by the JDA for “being connected encroached land” a time ago. JDA is headed by Vice Chairman Rupesh Kumar, appointed by J&K Lieutenant Governor Manoj Sinha astatine the position.
“The JDA has demolished his location built connected 3 marlas (0.01875 acres). I person decided to manus implicit 5 marlas (0.0312501 acres) of land. I could not basal the information that the full family, including kids, had to live under the unfastened sky. Those who demolished the location are heartless people. They (JDA) volition effort to demolish a house connected 5 marlas, I volition connection 10 marlas. No 1 volition beryllium allowed to harm Jammu’s brotherhood and harmony,” Mr. Sharma said.
Mr. Sharma criticised the BJP’s “divisive politics”.
“How agelong volition we proceed with this Hindu-Muslim hatred politics?” Mr. Sharma said. He asked J&K Chief Minister Omar Abdullah to measurement down “if helium is incapable to workout authorization implicit the authorities departments”.
Senior BJP person Ravinder Raina besides visited the location of the scribe and condemned the JDA’s determination to demolish the location without serving immoderate notice. “We bash not enactment demolitions. We basal with the family. In India, humanity, unity, and brotherhood travel earlier politics. Prime Minister Narendra Modi ji believes successful constructing houses for the mediocre and not to demolish any,” Mr. Raina said.
Former J&K Chief Minister and Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) president Mehbooba Mufti besides criticised the JDA. “These aren’t the homes of helpless Muslim families successful UP oregon elsewhere wherever targeting minorities has go the norm. This is J&K wherever Arfaz a writer who built a humble location 40 years agone connected 3 marlas of onshore saw it being crushed to rubble successful seconds,” Ms. Mufti said.
She said the NC authorities precocious dismissed the PDP’s anti-bulldozer Bill by branding these residents arsenic onshore grabbers. “Today the brutal consequences of that determination are for each to see,” Ms. Mufti said.
Meanwhile, scores of representatives of antithetic communities and civilian nine groups visited the scribe’s demolished location to explicit their solidarity, including members of the Madadgaar Humanity Foundation; erstwhile DIG Ashok Aatri; ex-Corporator Sobat Ali Choudhary; Congress person and ex-minister Raman Bhalla; Shia Federation Jammu Province president Ashiq Hussain and lawyers’ assemblage headed by advocator Sheikh Shakeel.
“Judiciary should instrumentality suo motu cognisance. First physique the location and past travel owed process to demolish it. In fact, demolish each the houses built connected encroached onshore successful Jammu but not successful selective actions. We request to absorption much connected Jammu, where crime complaint is going up and women find it unsafe now,” Advocate Supriya Singh Chouhan said.
Ms. Chouhan said the officers from extracurricular “have nary affectional transportation with the spot but section officers request to broadside with their ain radical and debar amerciable actions”. “Demolition has become a fashionable act. However, it has a semipermanent impact. How volition the kid whose location was demolished volition consciousness erstwhile helium grows up?” Ms. Chouhan said.
The scribe, Daing, is known for his journalism connected amerciable proviso of narcotics and the alleged engagement of officials, including policemen, successful the racket successful Jammu.
