Excelsior Correspondent
SRINAGAR, Jan 11: The Committee of Inquiry (CoI) through its Member Secretary, Additional Deputy Commissioner Srinagar has issued a show cause notice to ex-Incharge Tehsildar North Srinagar, Mohammad Bashir Rather presently attached with the office of Divisional Commissioner Kashmir asking him to explain his position within 21 days. In case of default, report will be submitted to the Divisional Commissioner, Kashmir on merits for further action under Civil Service Rules and other relevant rules governing the subject.
The show cause notice was issued to ex-Incharge Tehsildar North Srinagar on the basis of involvement of transfer of land, attesting mutations in the garb of Hiba Zabani, covering illegal transfer of such landed properties thereby evading legitimate stamp duty levy-able under normal circumstances worth more than Rs. 19 crore.
Ex-Incharge Tehsildar was suspended and attached with Divisional Commissioner, Kashmir and in the meanwhile a committee headed by Commissioner Survey and Land Records J&K was constituted to conduct a detailed inquiry in the matter.
The Chairman of the Committee through its members, Additional Deputy Commissioner Revenue, Srinagar and Deputy Commissioner Stamps for Commercial Taxes, Srinagar after proper securitization of the documents in the details of the landed properties covered under mutation on the basis of Hiba Zabani established that this illegal mode of transfer of landed properties in tehsil north Srinagar during the stay of suspended Tehsildar was disproportionate to the quantum of land transfer by this method of transfer in whole of the State, giving coverage to the modes of transition purely classified as sales for evasion of stamp duty for such an huge amount.
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