Muslims love to encroach land.
For Muslims expansion & encroachment without consolation & improvement is Sunnah.
Few people understand this.
Not only Pahalgam, Sonmarg and Gulmarg too are in a similar state. Even in Srinagar, areas around Dal Lake, Babademb, Doodhganga nallah, Narkara Numbal have witnessed similar broad daylight encroachments and illegal/unauthorized constructions, particularly in the last 10-15 years. Everybody knows that the Municipal and development authorities don't allow a simple replacement of a window in genuine cases. They don't lose a minute to demolition any such replacement if done without taking them on board.
People have lost hope because the watchdog institutions have completely shut their eyes to this loot and scoot in Kashmir. Media has done its job. Executive is complicit. Legislature and Judiciary are either mute spectators or compromised. Even the NGT and the Central investigation agencies, which are normally believed to be immune to local political, bureaucratic, corporate and social influences, have not used their powers and maintained their institutional credibility in many of such matters of public concern in Kashmir.
The most surprising and disappointing development is that many of such encroachments, land grabs and illegal constructions have happened in spite of blanket bans and court orders. In normal circumstances, courts should have taken suo moto cognizance of your story and pulled up the defaulters with demolitions and penalties. Who cares?