Anti-encroachment drive: Former bureaucrat’s property partly demolished

The authorities demolished an outer wall of a former bureaucrat’s house near the Srinagar Airport on Saturday, officials said.

An official said that a team of the Revenue Department led a demolition drive to reclaim state 1 kanal land from the “encroacher”.

He said that the outer wall, the main gate of the former bureaucrat Farooq Renzu Shah’s residence, was demolished in the Friends enclave, near the airport as part of the government’s demolition drive against the “land grabbers”.

Officials said that Farooq Renzu Shah’s Humhama home was allegedly in his wife’s name identified as Anjum Sultan daughter of Mohammad Sultan Wadroo.

Renzu Shah, is a former DC Budgam, Director Department of Information and is Chairman Jamaat-e-Aitqaad International.

Pertinently, the authorities have reiterated that the main target of the drive was to bring down “high-profile land grabbers”. (KDC)