Excelsior Correspondent
SRINAGAR, June 20: Vigilance Organization Kashmir has booked some officers of Soil Conservation Department Kupwara for misappropriation of Government money.
A case FIR number 25/2014 under Section 5(1) (c) (d) read with 5(2) P C Act Svt. 2006 and section 120-B RPC has been registered against Gh Mohi-ud-Din Shah, the then Assistant Soil Conservation Officer Kupwara, Gh Mohi-ud-Din Lone, the then Field Assistant Soil Conservation Kupwara, Gh Mohi-ud-Din Khan the then Assistant Soil Conservation Kupwara and Ab Qayoom Shah of Soil Conservation Department Kupwara.
Verification revealed that an amount of Rs 2.47 lakh was fraudulently released and paid to the executing agency by the Soil Conservation Department for the construction of works which had already been executed and paid by Rural Development Department Kupwara in the year 2006-07.
Acting in this manner, the officers and officials of Soil Conservation Department Kupwara hatched a criminal conspiracy with one another under a pre-conceived plan and in furtherance of the conspiracy, illegally and fraudulently misappropriated an amount of Rs 2,47,993 thereby causing loss to the State exchequer.
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