India, March 28 -- The Jammu and Kashmir government on Saturday said it has retrieved and restored encroached land belonging to Kashmiri Pandits in the Valley.

Replying to a question by BJP MLA Yudhvir Sethi in the Assembly, Chief Minister Omar Abdullah said, "Land measuring 3,729 kanals and 4 marlas belonging to Kashmiri migrants has been retrieved and restored in the Kashmir Valley."

Since November 2024, 844 kanals and 4 marlas of land belonging to Kashmiri Pandits have been retrieved and restored, Abdullah said.

Data indicates that land worth crores of rupees belonging to Kashmiri Pandits, who were forced to flee due to targeted killings after the emergence of terrorism in J-K in 1990, was illegally occupied.

Abdullah, who holds c...