Gujjars of Jammu and Kashmir today demanded dismissal of Police and Forest officials who set ablaze more than 30 houses of nomadic Gujjars at village Karnala Chak on the banks of river Tawi adjoining Vikram Chowk in Jammu yesterday. The community alleged that brute use of force at an isolated place is cruel, ruthless and inhuman and speaks in volumes about high-handedness of government against landless nomadic and tribal groups of the state. Addressing a protest meeting this afternoon, president Jammu and Kashmir Gujjars Bakerwal Joint Forum Haji Shamsher Ali Boken has demanded a judicial probe into the incidents and sought intervention of President of india Partibha Dev Singh Patil. He said that Scheduled Tribes (Recognition of Forest Rights) Act 2006 has given rights to nomadic groups cultivating forest land, adding that we have sent a communication addressed to President of India where under we have demanded constitutional right on forest land in Jammu and Kashmir. He alleged that state government instead of rehabilitating the nomadic Gujjars across the state is bent upon evicting them from their ancestral land used by them since centuries together. The clash between police and the members of nomadic tribe broke out yesterday afternoon when officers of social forestry department led by DFO Rupe Avtar Kour reached the spot today and asked them to vacate the land. Democracy does not give police and forest people a licence to use force against tribal people at their free will, Haji said, adding that they have no right to set on fire the huts of poor people. He alleged that even the children were not spared and police misbehaved with the female members of community which is painful and intolerable. He appealed to the community members to protest against this inhuman act of Police and forest officials. He also urged the government to provide temporary shelters to displaced families. Expressing concern, president Jammu Kashmir Gujjar Bakerwal Conference Haji Mohammed Yaqoob said that Gujjar community has always been discriminated in the matter of eviction. Demanding alternate shelter for the displaced members of Gujjar community, Haji Mohammed Yaqoob condemned police action against members of community adding that