Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, June 8: Anti-Corruption Bureau has registered case against Kiran Wattal, then Commissioner, Jammu Municipal Corporation and Farzana Naqashbandi, then Sr Town Planner, JMC , for criminal misconduct, abuse and misuse of their official position as public servants. Click here to watch video
They are accused of issuing building permission in favour of Pardeep Kumar and Kuldeep Kumar, sons of Shanti Prakash with dishonest intentions. A case FIR Number 12/2019, under Section 5(1) (d) punishable under Section 5 (2) J&K PC Act, Svt 2006 r/w 120-B RPC, has been registered against them at Police Station Anti Corruption Bureau Jammu.
The case was registered on basis of verification conducted into the allegations that building permission was granted to Pardeep Kumar and Kuldeep Kumar for raising a residential as well as commercial structure at Gummat Chowk Jammu, illegally and against laid down procedure of Municipal Corporation Jammu. The Senior Town Planner Farzana Naqashbandi recommended case of the applicant to the then Municipal Commissioner Jammu, who approved the building permission without referring it to BOCA or UTEIC ignoring objections raised by ACR Jammu and AC Nazool, deliberately and with malafide intentions.
During verification proceedings, it also came to fore that land in question was basically State land and acquired by Rani Blori temple during the rule of Maharaja but the officers relied upon the notarised lease deed which contained cuttings and unclear land specifications/Khasra number and despite these inherent defects, the permission was granted in favour of the beneficiaries, illegally thereby conferring huge pecuniary advantage upon them as the permission in question facilitated them to raise a huge commercial structure at the prime location near Gummat Chowk, Jammu.
As per the probe, it become evident that Senior Town Planner and Commissioner by abuse and misuse of their official positions as public servants with dishonest intentions sanctioned building permission in favour of the beneficiaries which paved way for them to raise huge commercial complex in Jammu city.
As the probe, prima facie, disclosed commission of criminal misconduct on the part of Farzana Naqashbandi and Kiran Wattal vis-a-vis the beneficiaries Pardeep Kumar and Kuldeep Kumar and constituted offences under section 5(1) (d) punishable U/s 5 (2) J&K PC Act, Svt 2006 r/w 120-B RPC, a formal case FIR was registered at P/s ACB Jammu for investigation.
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