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Court framed corruption charges against Ward Officer SMC 2/4/2025 11:16:26 PM Early Times Report Jammu, Feb 4: Additional Sessions Judge Anticorruption Srinagar Faizan ul Haq Iqbal today framed charges against Mohammad Maqbool Bhat Ward Officer Srinagar Municipal Council in trap case. According to the ACB that a written complaint alleging therein that Ward Officer, Srinagar Municipal Corporation(SMC), Hawal, Srinagar is demanding ₹50,000/- as bribe for allowing construction in favour of the complainant. The complainant requested to the ward officer and pleaded for justice, who however remained adamant on his demand of bribe. He had asked the complainant to pay a bribe of ₹20,000 as first installment. However, before paying the bribe amount to the accused person, the complainant approached Anti Corruption Bureau for taking legal action against the accused public servant under law. On receipt of the complaint a Case FIR No. 33/2022 U/S 7 PC Act 1988 was registered with this Bureau and investigation taken up. During the course of investigation a trap team constituted. The team laid a successful trap and caught the accused public servant Mohd Maqbool Bhat S/o Ali Mohd Bhat R/o HMT Srinagar, Ward Officer, Hawal SMC Srinagar red handed while demanding and accepting the bribe amount of ₹20,000 from the complainant as first instalment of ₹50,000. Additional Sessions Judge Anticorruption Srinagar Faizan ul Haq Iqbal after hearing both the sides observed that there is sufficient material on record which offers this court grounds for presuming that the accused has committed offence under section 7 of the prevention of corruption act 1988. Accordingly the accused is prima facie involved in commission of offence U/S 7 PC Act 1988 and formal charge is accordingly framed against the accused today who has denied the commission of offence alleged against him and claimed trial of the case. JNF   Share This News with Your Friends on Social Network     Comment on this Story

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