Anantnag: Continuing the anti-encroachment drive against the influential encroachers, officials of the Revenue Department of tehsil Qazigund Thursday, retrieved alleged encroached land from the kin of former forest minister and senior NC leader Peerzada Ghulam Ahmad Shah.
According to Revenue Department officials, the land measuring 1 kanal and 18 marlas was registered as Kahcharai in the estate Kurigam of tehsil Qazigund.
They said Shah’s kin had encroached upon the land valued at more than Rs 1 crore.
The Revenue Department officials said that this illegally encroached upon land was one of the many such patches of land retrieved from the clutches of influential land grabbers.