Jammu and Kashmir Lieutenant Governor Manoj Sinha said nearly 5,000 hotels built in Kashmir over the last six years are illegal. "From 2021 to the middle of 2024-25, over 5,000 hotels were built in the valley...It's true that 90% of them are illegal, only 10% are legal...But 5,000 were built, Sinha said. "They include (hotelier) Mushtaq Chaya's Radisson," Sinha added.