Excelsior Correspondent
SRINAGAR, Aug 26: Anti-Corruption Bureau today produced charge-sheet against Bashir Ahmad Shah, the then Forester, Soil Conservation Department J&K in Disproportionate Assets case.
Chargesheet in case FIR number 11/2017, under section 5 (1)(d),(e) read with section 5(2) of Prevention of Corruption Act ACB SBG Srinagar against Bashir Ahmad Shah, son of Late Wali Mohammad Shah, resident of Garoora Bandipora, at present Zubairabad Sunjwan Jammu/ Housing Colony, Bagh-e-Mehtab, Srinagar, was produced in the court of law.
The accused public servant had retired on superannuation on 03.01.2019. Next date of hearing is fixed on 18.10.2021.
The brief facts of the case are that a verification was conducted by the ACB Kashmir into the allegations that public servant namely Bashir Ahmad Shah, then Forester, presently posted as Zonal Soil Conservation officer (Soil Conservation Department J&K) has amassed huge wealth disproportionate to his known sources of income. It revealed that the accused Bashir Ahmad Shah had purchased land (plot No.64) at Bagh-e-Mehtab Housing Colony Srinagar and another plot at Zubairabad Sunjwan Road Jammu and has constructed two palatial houses on the said plots. Verification further revealed that Bashir Ahmad had amassed the property and incurred huge expenditure during the period 1980 to 2009 which has been found disproportionate to his known sources of income.
The verification of aforesaid omissions and commissions on the part of Bashir Ahmad Shah led to the registration of the instant case and investigation was taken up.
The assets discovered and attributed to the accused public servant are the house at Plot No. 64 Bagh-e-Mehtab Housing Colony, Srinagar, belonged to one Jawahar Lal Bhan of Diona New Delhi who had migrated out of valley after the eruption of militancy. The accused public servant has purchased a plot (51×39.5 Sfts) measuring seven marlas at Zubairabad Sunjwan Bathindi Jammu through a “Tahreer Nama and Baian Halfi” from one Chowdary Zain ud Din in the name of his 2nd wife namely Rumysa.
During investigation, it further surfaced that the accused has purchased two kanals of land from Abdul Gafar Sofi of Nawa Kadal at Chrar-i Sharief jointly with his father-in-law in the year 1996 and later on constructed a house on the said land.
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