JAMMU, Aug 12: Jammu and Kashmir Anti-Corruption Bureau has extracted one of the major land scams in Jammu and Kashmir, wherein a Custodian land in Asarwan, Mishriwala and Bhalwal area of Jammu district has been found usurped by the land mafia in connivance with Form Alf Holders and the officers/officials of Custodian/ Revenue department.
According to a statement, inputs were received that Custodian land in thousands of Kanal situated at Asarwan, Mishriwala and Bhalwal Jammu, has been fraudulently grabbed by the land grabbers/gangsters in connivance with the Revenue and police officers/officials.
The revenue records have been tempered and land has been sold to various persons, the statement added.
On the basis of the inputs received by ACB, a verification was initiated and on the basis of the verification conducted earlier it was found that more than 600 kanals of Custodian land was shown allotted to the displaced persons through fraudulent means by the officers/officials of Revenue Department in connivance with the land grabbers/ Form Alaf holders.
Accordingly, 16 case FIRs already stand registered by the ACB in which the investigation is in progress, it reads
Now again, during the course of verification it has been found that displaced persons from PaK were already allotted land in their favour but even then kith and kin of these families although not entitled as already allotted land being Form Alaf holders, in connivance with the concerned Patwaries/ Girdawars/ Naib Tehsildars/ Tehsildars of Revenue Department got mutations of additional land at Bhalwal area of District Jammu attested in their favour either without any Govt./ PRO order or on fake Govt./ PRO order.
“During verification, it has also been found that no such orders of allotment of land were issued by the office of the PRO. These persons after getting mutation of lands in their favour alienated the said land directly or through their attorney holders/ conduits to various persons by resorting to fraudulent means, thereby causing a huge loss to the govt exchequer,” reads the statement.
Owing to the establishment of a prima facie nexus between criminal elements, land grabbers, Form Alaf holders, and Revenue officers/officials involved in the alienation of approximately 150 kanals of Custodian land through fraudulent means, the Anti-Corruption Bureau (ACB) has registered another 08 formal case FIRs at P/S ACB Central Jammu & Kashmir. These cases are under investigation based on the provisions of the J&K Prevention of Corruption Act, criminal conspiracy, cheating, forgery, and fraud.
The accused in these cases include Suresh Sharma, the then Patwari of Patwar Halqa Barn, Tehsil Balwal, along with several other officials, including Mohit Gupta, the then Tehsildar of Balwal, and Kuldeep Singh, Anjali Slathia, Navjot Singh, Farooq Khan, Faryad Ahmed, Narain Singh (now deceased), Deedar Singh, Omkar Singh, Bashir Ahmad, and many others, who held various positions within the revenue department across Jammu and other districts.
Additionally, other key figures implicated in the fraud include Sat Pal, Shabir Ahmed, Iqbal Zargar, Guldarshan Singh (now deceased), Kamal Kohli, Shakeel Ahmad, Aqeel Ahmad, Jaspal Singh, Rashpal Singh, Hans Raj, Mangat Singh, Kulwant Singh, Sham Singh, and others. The ACB’s investigation aims to thoroughly examine the role of these individuals in the illegal transfer of land and the associated fraudulent activities. (KNO)
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