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Srinagar: A two-month-old youngster, yet to be named, is among a few individuals from the Gujjar Bakerwal clan who have been impacted by a removal drive by the organization of Jammu and Kashmir in a region inhabited by the Muslim tribe in Jammu city.
How might I shield my children from the gnawing cold? Where we will go? They have destroyed our home and stripped our products and effects," says Nasreena Akther, the youngster's mom and an inhabitant of the Upper Paloura area of Roop Nagar, Jammu.The places of a few individuals from the Gujjar Bakerwal clan, who have been residing here for quite a long time, were obliterated by the Jammu Development Authority (JDA) on Tuesday, January 11, in a drive against what it claims are unlawful infringements. The activity of the urban body - which has regularly confronted allegations of completing particular ousting drives - has set off inescapable shock and analysis in J&K and ignited fights in the Union Territory's colder time of year capital, Jammu on Wednesday.
The impacted families told the local news that specialists of the JDA, police and the income office dove down on the area on Monday morning and destroyed the houses. "At around 8:30 am, I was stunned when I saw authorities and JCBs advancing into our territory. Out of nowhere, they began obliterating our homes. We were defenseless and begged them, however they didn't tune in and smoothed them," says 70-year-old Saif Ali.
Akbar Hussain, one more nearby from the region, said that around 200 police and CISF faculty laid an attack around the territory and didn't permit anybody to enter the region. "A large portion of the men had left for work, to sell milk in Jammu city and different regions. Just ladies and older folks were in the homes when the specialists came and began tossing out our assets," he said, adding that few houses were annihilated or harmed during the five-hour drive. In recordings of the drive that have circulated around the web via web-based media, Gujjar Bakerwal ladies should be visible howling and begging the officials to save the houses.
"Good gracious! How sort of bad form is being treated us? Where my children will go? We are living for quite some time here. Take our territory however spare our homes," an older lady can be heard saying.As indicated by local people, a few individuals from the Scheduled Tribe people group have been living in the area for a really long time. Like other Gujjar-Bakerwals of J&K, they rely upon selling milk and other dairy items.
