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| Then XEn LAWDA, Others land in Vigilance net | | | Early Times Report
Jammu, Feb 25: State Vigilance Organization Kashmir today booked LAWDA officials including Executive Engineer Lake Division 2nd LDA, Srinagar (now retired ), his subordinate Assistant Executive Engineer Lake Division 2nd LDA, Srinagar, the Assistant Town Planner, Srinagar and Draftsman of Town Planning Organization for their main role in preparation of false reports and permitting construction in clear violation of the basic building permission.
According to SVO spokesperson, during the verification conducted into the allegations leveled in a complaint that Mohd Amin Bhat S/o Ghulam Qadir Bhat R/o Alamgaribazar, Srinagar applied in the year 2006 to the Deputy Director (Registration) Tourism Department, Kashmir for conversion of his double storeyed residential house located at Arabal Shalimar into Guest House and Deputy Director (Registration) Tourism Department, Kashmir sought the NOC from Secretary LAWDA.
"It has been revealed that the owner of the guest house Mohd Amin Bhat was granted permission for construction of two storeyed residential house by J&K Lakes & Water Development Authority, Srinagar vide order NO. 51- Bldg/LDA of 2003 dated 18/09/2003 for a plinth area of 1200 sqft whereas the said two storeyed building with attic was constructed on a plinth area of around 3914 Sqft in violation of the basic building permission," he added "During investigations it came to fore that the then Executive Engineer Lake Division 2nd LDA, Srinagar Ajay Kumar Koul (retired ), his subordinate Assistant Executive Engineer Lake Division 2nd LDA, Srinagar namely Feroze Ahmed Mir, the Assistant Town Planner, Srinagar Nazir Ahmed Magray and his subordinate Draftsman namely Bashir Ahmed Nanda of Town Planning Organization have played the main role in preparation of false reports which were sent to the Secretary J&K LAWDA, wherein they have deliberately concealed the facts and instead had given NOC for conversion of the said building to guest house, making no mention of the violation of basic building permission by the owner of the said building, the spokesperson added. It has been further revealed that an amount of Rs 58,4,80/- was received from the owner of the guest house as building permission fee for a plinth area of only 1462 Sqft at commercial rates whereas the construction was done on a plinth area of around 3914 Sqft, in violation of the basic building permission and owner of the Guest House was supposed to pay a fee of Rs. 2,80,241/-, thus causing a loss of Rs. 2,21,176/- has been caused to the state exchequer. It has been further revealed that the Chief Town Planner vide his letter No. BPC/Sgr/LTPK-08/1279 dated 30/10/2008 had communicated to the Vice Chairman J&K LAWDA, Srinagar that after spot inspection it was observed that Mohammad Amin Bhat committed deviations on a large scale from the building permission approved to him, but no action was taken by the J&K Lakes & Waterways Development Authority with regard to levying of the fee for conversion of the residential house into a guest house for commercial purposes. Accordingly a case under FIR N0 17/ 2015 P/s VOK u/s 5 (1) (d),5 (2) J&K PC Act 2006 r/w section 120-(B) RPC was registered in P/S VOK and investigation are on. |
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