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Senior J&K curate Sakina Itoo connected Friday (May 8, 2026) said the run to demolish properties and seal houses successful the garb of anti-drug inaugural should halt successful Kashmir.
“In Kashmir, you are demolishing properties and sealing and attaching houses. If a younker is involved, we person to wean him distant and rehabilitate him. Instead, if a younker is progressive and the spot is successful his father’s name, it is being sealed. This is making the beingness of locals difficult,” said Ms. Itoo, who is simply a Cabinet curate and holds respective portfolios, including Education and Health.
Questioning the anti-drug run of the J&K Police, which has carried retired ample standard sealing of properties and demolition of properties, Ms. Itoo said it (police) should absorption connected the proviso concatenation and guarantee drugs bash not participate Kashmir. “It’s their occupation to halt the proviso chain. In the garb of an anti-drug campaign, don’t people locals’ properties,” said Ms. Itoo.
The Minister besides expressed interest implicit “more demolitions and attachment of properties successful the Kashmir vale compared to Jammu”. “As a Health minister, if you inquire me, the cause occupation is much successful Jammu than Kashmir. But enactment is wide successful Kashmir,” she added.
She said the Omar Abdullah authorities has already framed an anti-drug argumentation and has introduced a Bill successful the J&K assembly. “We, including Chief Minister Omar Abdullah, are with the efforts to curb cause abuse. But taking bulldozers to people’s doorstep is not helpful,” she added.
Opposition Peoples Democratic Party has trained guns astatine the J&K authorities implicit these demolitions. “For galore Kashmiris, the extortion of onshore and spot was not conscionable an predetermination issue, it’s personal, existential. Perhaps the lone crushed galore voted was to safeguard their livelihood and ancestral inheritance. Bulldozer justness without procedure, oregon owed process is not governance; it is simply a unsafe precedent,” said PDP legislator Waheed ur Rehman Parra, who posted a video of demolition thrust successful southbound Kashmir connected societal media.
Mr. Parra said uprooting families from places held for generations is inhumane. “This demolition successful Keegam, Shopian, proceeded contempt repeated pleas to the acrophobic gross authorities. Incidents similar this are precisely wherefore our onshore regularisation measure was necessary. The J&K authorities can’t disregard this occupation by denying a onshore bill-a flood gross for demolition has been opened by denying ineligible extortion to the poor,” said Mr. Parra.
J&K parties’ crisp disapproval of the actions of the J&K Police, which comes nether the bid of Lieutenant Governor Manoj Sinha successful the Union Territory (UT), has travel conscionable days aft section legislators from ruling National Conference (NC) and PDP attended an anti-drug rally successful Srinagar connected the invitation of the L-G. It was the biggest anti-drugs rally attended by locals successful Kashmir.
Mr. Sinha has described cause menace successful Kashmir arsenic “a soundless terrorism” and accused Pakistan of utilizing the cause wealth for coercion and radicalisation.
Despite the disapproval from the ruling NC, the J&K Police connected Friday (May 8, 2026) stepped up a crackdown connected locals, attached properties and demolished properties.
“Police successful Baramulla, successful coordination with the Revenue authorities and Gulmarg Development Authority (GDA), demolished a store of a notorious cause peddler successful Ferozpora. The enactment forms portion of the intensified run aimed astatine dismantling the enactment structures of cause trafficking networks and sending a beardown connection against the menace of narcotics,” said a constabulary spokesman.
In southbound Kashmir’s Anantnag, the constabulary said amerciable cultivation of opium poppy was recovered connected Shamilat (community) land. The constabulary besides initiated attachment and seizure proceedings nether Section 68-F of the NDPS Act against Bashir Ahmad Mir and his household members successful Anantnag. The constabulary said aft an enquiry conducted nether Chapter VA of the NDPS Act revealed that the household had “amassed immense movable and immovable assets disproportionate to their known lawful sources of income”. “The enquiry further established that these properties were jointly held by the household members and are suspected to person been acquired done proceeds generated from illicit narcotics trade,” the constabulary said.
In Kulgam, the constabulary said policemen and Revenue authorities retrieved “kahcharai [a rubric of assemblage land] onshore measuring a full of 5 Kanals astatine colony Oriel nether unauthorised concern of a cause peddler”. The constabulary said the retrieved onshore has an estimated marketplace worth of astir ₹60 lakhs.
“Strict enactment volition proceed against individuals progressive successful cause trafficking, and each amerciable assets, encroachments, and proceeds of transgression linked to specified activities volition beryllium identified and dealt with arsenic per law,” said Anayat Ali Chowdhary, Senior Superintendent of Police, Kulgam.
