India has granted land ownership rights to mostly Hindu refugees who had migrated to disputed India-administered Kashmir from Pakistan in 1947 as well as after 1965 India-Pakistan War. New Delhi which administers the Muslim-majority region through Lieutenant Governor Manoj Sinha accorded sanction to grant proprietary rights on the region’s land in favour of what are known as “West Pakistani displaced persons” along with those displaced persons of 1965, officials said.
