India, Nov. 14 -- The High Court of Jammu & Kashmir and Ladakh has dismissed three separate appeals filed under the scrapped Roshni Act by Ghulam Rasool Mushtari and others who had sought ownership rights over portions of State land in Srinagar.

The Division Bench of Justice Shehzad Azeem and Justice Sindhu Sharma upheld the earlier Single Judge order dated 24 July 2018, which had rejected similar petitions.

The appellants had approached the court claiming ownership rights over land located in Rampora Chattabal and Batamaloo areas of Srinagar under the Jammu and Kashmir State Land (Vesting of Ownership to the Occupants) Act, 2001, widely known as the Roshni Act. They argued that their continued possession of the land entitled them to ow...