Meghalaya Guv Satya Pal Malik’s claim about me being Roshni Act beneficiary false: Mehbooba Mufti

PDP president Mehbooba Mufti on Wednesday requested Meghalaya Governor Satya Pal Malik to withdraw his purported feedback that the previous Jammu and Kashmir chief minister was a beneficiary of now-abandoned Roshni scheme, failing which authorized motion might be taken in opposition to him. “False & unsavoury utterances of Satya Pal Malik about me being a beneficiary of Roshni Act is very mischievous. My authorized group is getting ready to sue him. He has the choice to withdraw his feedback, failing which I’ll pursue authorized recourse,” Mehbooba stated in a tweet.

Mehbooba shared a video through which Malik, who was the final Governor of Jammu and Kashmir state, is purportedly seen claiming that Nationwide Convention chief Farooq Abdullah, his son Omar Abdullah and Peoples Democratic Get together (PDP) chief Mufti has acquired plots of land underneath the Roshni scheme.

The Roshni Act was introduced in by the Farooq Abdullah authorities with the goal of granting proprietary rights to occupants of state land in lieu of fees. The cash thus generated was for use for establishing hydroelectric energy vegetation within the erstwhile state.

Nonetheless, the scheme was disbanded after Jammu and Kashmir Excessive Courtroom declared it unlawful and directed the CBI to analyze the beneficiaries of the scheme.

It has emerged that proprietary rights to bulk of the state land (practically 28,500 hectares) was given within the Jammu division, whereas proprietary rights had been transferred to the occupants in Kashmir solely on six per cent (1,700 hectares) of the land.