THE GREEDY BROKERS AND THE SHADY BUYERS

                                    

                                                     ( A deserted Kashmiri Pandit house in the  Kashmir valley) 

THE GREEDY BROKERS  AND  THE  SHADY BUYERS 

I am aware of many persons who bought immovable property of Kashmiri Pandits for peanuts.. A property worth 80 Lakhs in Rawalpora Housing Colony was bought for 12.50 Lakhs. A property worth 40 Lakhs in Indira Nagar was bought for 3.50 Lakhs. Old residential houses in Srinagar city were bought for anything between fifty thousand to two Lakhs. Shops, agricultural land and orchards owned by Kashmiri Pandits met a similar fate.Leave aside large-scale encroachments and unauthorised occupations. These are altogether different painful stories. 

I know how, after 1990, many greedy brokers swarmed into  Jammu  (camps and residential areas ) and other cities of the country in scorching heat, tracing the Pandit owners of the property in the Kashmir valley and forcing them to sign a "Power of Attorney " to sell their property for peanuts. I saw these greedy brokers using fear, panic, coercion, pressure, intimidation or what is known as  *Saam, Daam Dhand and Bhed skillfully to trap hapless victims who needed money badly to survive in alien lands after being thrown out of their homes and hearths. 

I am privy to the trapping of many innocents in these cruel and criminal sales by the greedy brokers who tied the property owners  with petty advance amounts till they found a buyer. It was cruel. It was pathetic. It was unjust. It was sheer deceit.

Mysterious fires, removal of doors/ windows, removal of sanitary fittings and many other methods were employed by these criminals masquerading as property brokers to convince innocent owners that there was no buyer for the house they left behind, given its prevailing conditions. Babademb area in Srinagar city  became hub for the sale of the old wooden frames, doors, windows ,wooden furniture and other stuff looted from vacant houses of Kashmiri Pandits . Some carpentry shops opened in this area for remodeling this looted frames, doors, windows  and furniture for prospective buyers.

Unfortunately, some of these greedy brokers and shady buyers are currently active on social media, giving loud sermons on moral values, peace, humanism, and justice. They also speak about Baichaara( brotherhood ) and Kashmiriyat.

(Avtar Mota )

PS

*The phrase "Saam Daam Dand Bhed" is a strategic concept from ancient Indian texts.  Each of the four words represents a different approach for achieving a goal and completing a mission.

Saam : It involves using clever dialogue, negotiation, and apparently friendly discussions to win over someone.

Daam :  It refers to using money, incentives, or gifts to influence someone’s decision.

Dhand : It involves using force, threats, or punitive measures to achieve compliance or achieve your goal.

Bhed : It involves using strategies to create suspicions, uncertainties, doubts or divisions in the mind to achieve the goal.

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