Like our Facebook Page

news details

SVO ups campaign against ex-ministers, bureaucrats 2/25/2016 11:58:14 PM Early Times Report Srinagar, Feb 25: The government has finally decided to tighten the noose around the necks of former ministers and bureaucrats. The Vigilance Organisation (VO) has booed a number of former ministers and bureaucrats sending the signals that the `good old days' are over. As per VO data around nine cases have been registered since mid January against revenue officials and officials of the municipality and R&B. Most of the cases involve illegal gratification. The former VC SKUAST Jammu, its former registrar Dr B Mishra and assistant Registrar Tarsen Raj. They were booked for misusing their official position. According to the FIR the accused are allegedly involved making insertions in official documents and tampering the records. The tampering, the FIR reveals helped Taj Mohi ud Din S/o Khuda Baksh R/o Batamaloo Srinagar to encroach the adjacent forest land. The data further reveals that a former executive engineer PMGSY Showkat Hussain Koul was booked for demanding and accepting a bribe amount of Rs. 5.9 lacs from Jahangir Ahmad Bhat Proprietor M/S Jahangir Steel Industries. He was entrusted with the job of constructing road from Salamabad to Gowhalan Tehsil Uri District Baramulla Stage-II Phase-IV under PMGSY during 2010. Another FIR dated January 29 2016 was registeredagainst Chief Enforcement Officer Srinagar Municipal Corporation, Nisar Ahmad Shah, 2014 ward officer Nawab Bazar, Mushtaq Ahmad Malik and Assistant Executive Engineer R&B Sub Division Syed Mansoor Sahib Srinagar, Sheikh Javaid Ahmad. They are facing charges of allowing conversion of residential property into commercial complex at Bemina. The SVO also booked former MLC Handwara, Mohammad Sultan Ganie Pandit Puri. The MLC had demanded and accepted Rs. 60,000 gratification from the complainant for getting his son and his son-in-law (nephew) appointed in J&K Police Department. The SVO upped its campaign against the corrupt following a meeting on January 19 2016, chaired by Governor NN Vohra. The Governor was told a gazetted officer and ten non-gazetted officers were convicted in 2015. informed that 10 cases were concluded in 2015 involving conviction of 1 gazetted officer and 10 non-gazetted officials.   Share This News with Your Friends on Social Network     Comment on this Story

top stories of the day

Guv to punish tainted babus? SVO ups campaign against ex-ministers, bureaucrats 'BJP murdering Mookerjee, Deendayal for power' Frustrated Omar questions Accession Fearing midterm polls, NC raises autonomy bogey J&K cadre IPS officers don't want to return from deputation SBM becomes latest source of corruption in rural areas Industrialists' lobby transferring land illegally in Jammu PDP-BJP alliance again in doubt after LS debate State leaders likely to be summoned to Delhi EDI encounter: Army starts 'introspection' Azad camp offers to host Rahul visit as Mir complains of non-cooperation R&B, PMGSY spend crores on same road project Wireless Operators: HC verdict biting dust in GAD Forest deptt diverts land for non-forest purposes bypassing rules Talk of party reshuffle unnerves PDP men No technician to operate CT Scan machine at DH Ramban 'Nationalist' BJP eager to continue alliance with PDP GDC Srinagar rehab centre for VIP dentists Engineer Rashid creates 'flutter' by playing 'anti-police' video of Ravinder Raina Illegal fishing unabated in river Lidder ACD reinstates MPWs suspended for fraud

STOCK UPDATE

BSE Sensex NSE Nifty

CRICKET UPDATE