Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, Aug 11: The Jammu and Kashmir Anti-Corruption Bureau (ACB) has booked a former Revenue official and other individuals for their alleged role in illegal tampering revenue records to confer undue benefits to private individuals.
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As per an ACB official, the case has been registered against Mohammad Iqbal Zargar, former Patwari (now retired as Naib Tehsildar), Patwar Halqa Sunjwan, then Tehsildar (Settlement) Jammu, Aslam Din (now deceased), and beneficiaries, Mohammad Rashid of Jalalabad, Sunjwan, Mohammad Mushtaq of Sunjwan, and others for tampering with the revenue records.
He said verification revealed that mutation number 689/Jeem, covering land in Sunjwan village, was illegally attested on March 27, 2010 by then Tehsildar, despite such powers being vested only with a Settlement Officer under the J&K Land Revenue Act.
The mutation, he claimed, transferred 15 kanals and 14 marlas of land to Mohammad Rashid and 69 kanals to Mohammad Mushtaq and others.
It was also discovered during the verification that the mutation was entered by Mohammad Iqbal Zargar when he was not posted in the Patwar Halqa and was in violation of standing order provisions, with another mutation of the same number already attested in 2008 for the same village, the ACB official said.
According to him, the Financial Commissioner, Revenue, had set aside the 2010 mutation in 2017 and ordered restoration of previous entries.
Meanwhile, further investigation is underway, he added.
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