Excelsior Correspondent
SRINAGAR, Dec 4: The Crime Branch Kashmir today filed a chargesheet in a land-fraud case in which a businessman and two retired revenue officials allegedly forged records to transfer land illegally.
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According to CBK, the charge sheet in FIR No. 79/2022, registered under Sections 420, 467, 468, 471 and 120-B of the RPC read with Section 5(2) of the Prevention of Corruption Act, has been submitted before the Court of the Special Judge Anti-Corruption, Srinagar.
The charge sheet named three accused, Habibullah Bhat, a businessman from Omarhair Buchpora; Mohammad Rajab Reshi, a retired Naib Tehsildar from Brein Nishat; and Syed Khurshid Ahmad, then Patwari, of Watalbagh Lar, Ganderbal.
CBK said the case stemmed from a written complaint alleging that a fraudulent mutation of 10 marlas of land under Khasra Nos. 467 and 468 at Zoonimar Eidgah, Srinagar, had been executed in favour of the accused on the basis of a purported sale deed.
“During investigation, it was found that no such sale deed bearing Registration No. 1693 dated 08.09.2003 had ever been registered by the concerned Sub-Registrar,” the agency said.
The investigation, CBK added, established that the accused, in criminal conspiracy, manipulated revenue records and fraudulently entered mutation details on the basis of a non-existent sale deed.
Their involvement in the offences has been prima facie established, and the charge sheet has been filed for judicial determination, it said.
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