Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, Jan 9: The Vigilance Organization Jammu has booked four Revenue officials and others for fraudulently mutating more than 60 kanal Government land in Kishtwar on the name of land grabbers for monetary considerations.
A case FIR number 03/2014 u/s 5(1) (d) r/w Sec 5(2) PC Act Svt 2006 & sections 420, 467, 468, 471 and 120-B RPC was today registered in Police Station Vigilance Organization, Jammu against Abdul Qayoom, the then Girdawar Halqa Pochhal, Om Dutt the then Patwari Halqa Pochhal, Mohd Iqbal Kichloo the then Patwari Halqa Pochhal and Abdul Aziz Tak the then Patwari Halqa Pochhal and the beneficiaries namely Pardeep Singh and others.
The FIR was registered on the basis of verification conducted into the allegations that the land measuring 60 kanals and 16 marlas, falling under Khasra number 2772/583 min, which was shown in Revenue records since 1971 as Government land not inhabited by anyone, has been fraudulently mutated by these Revenue officials in the name of Pardeep Singh and others on monetary considerations.
It was alleged that said land was coming within the alignment of the Kishtwar Chatroo Sinthan Road and involved huge amount of the compensation which prompted the above action by the Revenue authorities who acted with malafide intentions to confer undue benefit upon Pardeep Singh and others in lieu of huge monetary benefits.
The verification conducted further revealed that the said land was “Shamlat Deh” and the proprietary land owners of the village had proportionate share in the same but the said Revenue officials by abusing their official position made fraudulent entries in Revenue record exclusively in their favour in respect of the portion of land falling under Kh. Number 2772/583 of village Pochhal which was coming under alignment of Kishtwar-Sinthan Road.
This was done by initially changing the status of land from “Gair Mumkin Jarh” to “Gorah” in the year 2003 and subsequently attesting mutations of the said land in favour of the beneficiaries in the year 2010 by showing their possession over the same since the year 1971.
Interestingly, the possession of Kuljeet Kumar and Pardeep Singh has been shown since 1971 whereas their dates of birth have been found as 02.02.1977 and 05.04.1964 respectively.
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