Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, Jan 5: Anti Corruption Bureau today registered two separate cases against Superintending Engineer PHE Kargil, Sarwan Singh and former Junior Assistant, FCS&CA Romesh Chander.
The Bureau conducted separate verifications against the two officials and found that both of them have accumulated huge wealth / assets running into crores and in the form of movable and immovable property through illegal means and corrupt practices in their own names and in the name of their family members.
The comparative analysis of the income, expenditure and assets of the accused persons conducted by the Anti Corruption Bureau revealed that assets owned and expenditure incurred by the accused persons was disproportionate to their known source of income.
It was found that present SE Kargil Sarwan Singh, a resident of Gandhi Nagar, Jammu, had raised huge assets in the State and outside which included a double storey fully furnished house at Gandhi Nagar, business activity under the name and style of S.A Electro Equip Pvt. Ltd at Sahakar Nagar, Bangalore, another business in the name and style of S.A Automation and Communication at Bangalore, Flat in Bharatiya City township at Bangalore, another business in the name of S.A Automation at Sahibzada Ajit Singh Nagar Mohali, Punjab, a flat in Employees Cooperatives Building Society at Mohali, business unit under the name and style of M/S Janata Cement and tiles, bricks and blocks factory at Centre Govindsar, Kathua and Partnership in M/s Shakti Floor Mill at Sarhano, Kalakote.
It was also found that Romesh Chander, Junior Assistant, a resident of Bhamyal, Nagrota, presently putting up at Indira Colony, Janipura, who was compulsorily retired from services by the State Government in 2016 has also raised various assets in the shape of a double storey building on JDA land measuring more than one kanal while as his children have undergone MBA and BDS in private colleges on payment basis.
It was further revealed that accused had illegally occupied a plot of land measuring 6.75 Marlas at Indira Colony, Janipur, where he had constructed a house worth lakhs of rupees. Teams of Vigilance Department simultaneously raided various residences of accused persons after registration of formal case against them, with the help of local police /Magistrates at the residences and factory premises in Kathua and Rajouri districts.
During the course of searches at residential complexes of the accused person, it has been found that huge investment had been made in various immovable properties, who was also running various business establishments.
During the process, all relevant record/suspicious documents which have been recovered from various locations were seized on spot in the presence of independent witnesses. Detailed and in-depth scrutiny of the seized record will be carried out during further course of investigation by sleuths of the Bureau, an official handout said.
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