Excelsior Correspondent
Jammu, May 14: The Vigilance Organization has booked officers and officials of Revenue Department in Jammu district for illegal conferment of ownership rights of the State land to beneficiaries under Roshni Act.
By sheer misuse of their official position, the accused Revenue officials conferred undue benefits upon the illegal occupants of the State land by intentionally ignoring the laid down provisions of Roshni Act and hence inflicted huge monetary loss to the State exchequer.
According to a handout, issued by the Vigilance Organization, the case FIR in this connection was registered on a complaint of one Raj Kumar of New Plot Jammu, forwarded by the Special Judge Anti corruption.
However, for the reasons best known to the Vigilance authorities, the handout did not reveal the names of beneficiaries as well as the accused Revenue officials, who have committed the offences punishable under Section 5(1) (c) 5(1) (d) read with 5(2) J&K PC Act Svt.2006 and 120-B RPC.
Meanwhile, the Vigilance Organization presented challan in the case FIR number 39/1999 Police Station VOK against Syed Giyas-Ud-Din, then Naib- Tehsildar Rajpora Pulwama, Mohammad Akbar Bhat, then Girdawar Rajpora Pulwama and Manzoor Ahmad Bhat, then Patwari Hardul Hanjan Rajpora Pulwama, who are accused of misusing their official position. The challan was presented in the Court of Additional Anti-corruption Judge Pulwama.
The accused public servants had mutated land measuring three kanals “Gair Mumkin Abadi” bearing Khasra No. 374-min vide Mutation No. 629 in favour of accused beneficiaries namely Wali Mohammad, Ghulam Mohammad and his brother Mushtaq Ahmad; Abdul Razaq and his brothers Ghulam Mohammad, and Mohammad Yousuf of Harduhanjan, Rajpora.
The next date of the case has been fixed on July 9, 2015.
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