Jammu and Kashmir government started a massive encroachment drive. Then it remembered forest rights
An orchard owner in Budgams Kani Dajan village surveys the damage. | Safwat Zargar Mohammad Ahsan Wagay does not remember which day it happened. His memory is blurred by the shock. Sometime in the third week of November, a team of forest department officials arrived at Kani Dajan village in Central Kashmir’s Budgam district. They left behind a trial of destruction, cutting down hundreds of apple trees and damaging other crops on forest land occupied by village residents. Wa...
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