Excelsior Correspondent
SRINAGAR, Mar 12: The Anti-Corruption Bureau (ACB) today presented a chargesheet against the then Executive Officer Municipal Committee (MC) Sumbal and Bandipora and three others before the Court of Special Judge Anti-Corruption Baramulla.
The chargesheet was produced before the court on culmination of the investigations against accused Peerzada Abdul Rashid Shah<, son of Noor-ud-Din Shah of Papchan, Bandipora, the Executive Officer MC Sumbal, Hajin and Bandipora for commission of the offence punishable under Section 5(1) (e) r/w sec 5 (2) of the Jammu and Kashmir Prevention of Corruption Act, Svt. 2006, U/sec 12/14 of the Public Men and Public Servants (Declaration of Assets and Other Provisions) Act, 1983 r/w Section 109 of the Ranbir Penal Code and against the co-accused persons – Afroza Bano wife of Abdul Rashid Shah of Papchan Bandipora, Saif Ud Din Baba, son of Ghulam Mohi-ud-Din Baba of Doniwari Kupwara, and Sameer Ahsan Shah, son of Mohammad Ahsan Shah of Papchan Bandipora, for the offence punishable under Section 109 of the RPC. The next date of hearing has been fixed on April 28.
The ACB had registered four cases against accused Abdul Rashid Shah including three different cases of illegal/fraudulent appointments in MC Sumbal, Hajin and Bandipora and two cases against his nephew Javid Ahmad Shah, the then Jr assistant NC Bandipora of fraudulent mutation and DA FIR.
The investigations in all three different cases of illegal /fraudulent appointments have been finalized by ACB and the charge sheet against accused Abdul Rashid Shah and others before court of law.
During investigations in the instant DA case FIR No 09-2013 it was found that accused public servant by indulging in corrupt practices has raised following assets/ expenditures during check period which were beyond known sources of income & for which he fails to account for Constructed a double Storied house at village Papchan Bandipora on ancestral land, additional accommodation near the house at Papchan Bandipora, purchase of land 01 kanal 04 marlas at Papchan Bandipora, purchased a double storied house at Gazaliabad HMT Srinagar during check period, purchased triple Storied Shopping Complex at Bandipora, purchase of land measuring 2 kanal 10 marlas near Masjid Sharief at Takiyabal District Bandipora, purchase of land 01 kanal at Papchan Bandipora, purchase of land 02 marlas at Papchan Road Bandipora, purchase of land 01 kanal and 17 marlas at Papchan Bandipora, purchase of land 01 Kanal and 07 Marlas at Iqbal Colony Sidrha Jammu, purchased 01 Kanal and 07 Marlas of land in the name of his wife Afrooza Begum at Sidhra bypass Jammu, plot No. 01, purchased 01 Kanal, 06 Marlas and 111 sft of land in the name accused wife Afrooza Begum at Sidhra bypass Jammu Plot No. 02, purchased 01 Kanal and 06 Marlas of land in the name of accused wife Afrooza Begum at Sidhra bypass Jammu, Plot No.03, purchased 01 Kanal and 07 Marla’s of land in the name of accused wife at Sidhra bypass Jammu Plot No.04, A-Star Maruti Car.
Besides this during the searches of his properties large number of expensive household goods were recovered besides gold and fixed deposit certificates.
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