DH NEWS SERVICE
jammu, Feb 19
The sleuth of Anti-Corruption Bureau (ACB) on Wednesday booked the then Managing Director of Cooperative Housing Corporation and others for illegal allotment of the state land.
As per the official spokesman, a Preliminary Enquiry was conducted to look into allegations that the J&K Cooperative Housing Corporation Ltd. (JKCHC) purchased 392 kanal of land from private persons for establishing a Housing Colony at Village Bain Bajalta, District Jammu and for that purpose, also illegally occupied Kah Charai, Maqbuza Sarkar and JDA land. It was alleged that the Board purchased 392 Kanals of land at scattered places, he said adding that the management of JKCHC in connivance with officers and officials of Revenue Department illegally occupied about 584 Kanal land which includes state land.
The JKCHC then allotted the same to different persons by making plots, he said as per the investigation.
The spokesman said that during preliminary enquiry, it was found that JKCHC acquired land at village Bain Bajalta for the establishment of a housing colony, adding, “during the process of taking possession of land, the Corporation illegally occupied state land measuring 111 Kanal and 17 Marlas.
Apart from this, the Corporation also occupied 100 kanal 15 marla land from the owners vested with proprietary rights of the land under J&K Agrarian Reforms Act 1976 and Govt. Order No. S-432.”
“During the course of enquiry, it was surfaced that the officers and officials of JKCHC and Revenue Department in furtherance of a well-knit conspiracy hatched among themselves and the beneficiaries, by abuse of their official position, paved way for transfer of rights of the land for establishing a housing colony by the JKCHC in violation to the government provisions dishonestly and fraudulently by misrepresenting facts, thereby conferring undue benefits upon themselves, the corporation and the beneficiaries,” he added.
He said that these omissions and commissions on the part of officers and officials of the JKCHC and the Revenue Department including Bharat Bhushan Sharma the then Managing Director J&K Cooperative Housing Corporation, Shesh Paul Salgotra, the then Tehsildar Jammu, Sanjay Badyal, the then Tehsildar Jammu, Mahesh Chander the then Naib Tehsildar Sidhra, Farooq Hussain the then Patwari Halqa Bain Bajalta Jammu, Nek Mohd then Patwari Halqa Bain Bajalta Jammu, the beneficiaries and others constitute offences punishable under Prevention of Corruption Act Svt. 2006 and other relevant sections under which the FIR has been registered in Police Station ACB Central.
Further investigation in the case is going on, said the spokesman.
