In 2014 Comptroller and Auditor General (CAG) had raised issues of irregularities and, in 2015, the State Vigilance Organisation had charged over 20 government officials with misuse of the act; no one was prosecuted.[2] From 2015 onwards, efforts were made to get back some of the illegally acquired land.[3]
In 2018 the act was repealed during the tenure of the Governor of Jammu and Kashmir Satya Pal Malik who ordered the investigation to be taken over by the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI).[4][5]
On 9 October 2020, following demands from IkkJutt Jammu, the Jammu and Kashmir High Court deemed the law and all allotments made since the beginning as "null and void" and "unconstitutional".[5][failed verification] The court also said that the rules framed in 2007 by the Government of Ghulam Nabi Azad did not appear to have any legislative sanction.[2][6][7] The state government has said that it will recover land distributed under the scheme in six months. All the identities of those who took advantage of the scheme were to be made public.[4]
On 22 October 2020, the administration of Jammu and Kashmir Union Territory ordered the submission of comprehensive details of ministers, legislators, bureaucrats, police officers, government employees, businessmen, other influential persons and their relatives who have benefitted from the Act.[8]
On 24 November 2020, India's Union Law Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad in a press conference said that former J&K Chief Minister Farooq Abdullah was among the beneficiaries in Roshni Act. The others in the list were the former Finance Minister of J&K Haseeb Drabu, Congress leader Majid Wani, former Home Minister and NC leader Sajjad Kitchloo and former JK Bank Chairman MY Khan.[9]