DM sets up committee

DISTRICT MAGISTRATE Hariom has constituted a four-member committee to go through land records pertaining to a dispute over cemetery land near Gorakhnath overbridge. The committee has been asked to submit a report.

DISTRICT MAGISTRATE Hariom has constituted a four-member committee to go through land records pertaining to a dispute over cemetery land near Gorakhnath overbridge. The committee has been asked to submit a report.

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The deputy municipal commissioner, the ADM, City, the SP City, and the SDM have been made members of the committee.

The district magistrate has directed the committee to conduct an on-the-spot inspection and settle the dispute. He said senior superintendent of police Dipesh Juneja had written a letter regarding the sensitivity of the issue. He further said the committee would scrutinise the land record and submit its report.

The atmosphere on the district magistrate’s premises became surcharged when both parties came face to face. However, quick intervention by police averted the possibility of a clash.

The district administration has invited the Tahaffuz Qabristan Committee to submit its land records. Committee members Qamruzzam Ansari and Chaudhari Najmuddin submitted the court order delivered on 5.3.89 regarding the land.

The saffron brigade is claiming that the stay order has been issued only against the record number 728. They said since 1998, there had been an approach road adjacent to the cemetery. Now, a full-fledged road was to be constructed. They also claimed that according to record number 728, the land said to belong to the cemetery land was the garden of Gorakh Singh, a landlord of the city.

The dispute is pending in court and May 19 is the next date of hearing.

Meanwhile, constitution of the committee has generated confidence among people that an amicable solution will be found.