Excelsior Correspondent
SRINAGAR, Apr 7: Special Judge Anti Corruption, Baramulla today reserved the orders on framing of charges in Gulmarg Land scam in which senior offices are named as accused.
After hearing a battery of lawyers representing former Divisional Commissioner Kashmir, Mehboob Iqbal, former Deputy Commissioner Baramulla, Baseer Khan and more than eight top hoteliers of Kashmir valley, the Additional Sessions Judge Baramulla (with powers of Special Judge Anti-Corruption), Jatinder Singh Jamwal, reserved the orders on framing of charges.
Senior Advocate Zaffar Ahmad Shah representing the accused vehemently argued for the discharge of the accused and submitted that VoK wrongly booked the accused in this case and on the other hand the Public Prosecutor representing VoK justified the registration of FIR and sought framing of charges against the high profile accused.
He further submitted that the accused public servants entered into a criminal conspiracy with the high profile hoteliers/beneficiaries and deprived the State of valuable land running into crores of rupees. He submitted that there was no question of grant of ownership rights to the beneficiaries/ hoteliers when the land was outside the purview of the Roshni Act.
The SVO had registered a case against senior officials of the Government in 2009 for allegedly misusing official position for illegal transfer of Government land in Gulmarg worth crores of rupees by misusing provisions of the J&K State Land, (Vesting of Ownership Rights to the Occupants) Act, 2001, also known as Roshni Act.
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