Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, Jan 6: Special Judge Anticorruption Kashmir RN Wattal has decided 35 years old corruption case and acquitted several accused including the Government servants, who were booked by the Vigilance Organization (now Anti-Corruption Bureau) in the year 1985.
Those who have been acquitted are Gh Mohammad Sofi, the then Manager DIC Srinagar (now retired), Mohammad Maqbool Hakeem, the then Industrial Promotion Officer, DIC Srinagar (presently Manager DIC Budgam), Ghulam Mohammad Beigh (Proprietor M/s Best Trunk Industries Srinagar), Bashir Ahmad Beigh (Prop M/S Irshad Steel Industry Batamaloo, Mohamad Sidiq Beigh (Prop M/s New Rose Trunk Industry Srinagar and Irshad Ahmad Ahanger (Prop Irshad Enterprises Chand Pora Bridge Srinagar.
While acquitting the accused, the court observed, “prosecution has failed to prove the charge against the accused beyond any reasonable doubt and therefore, accused deserve to be acquitted by extending them the benefit of doubt”.
Before parting, the court expressed anguish over the inadequacy, haphazard and unfair investigation in the case and failure to fairly discharge the responsibility on part of the Investigating Officer.
The charge sheet owes its origin to the complaint received by Vigilance Organization that accused claimed Rs 15.00 lakh as CST refund for the year 1981 and same was paid to them illegally on the basis of forged and fictitious documents.
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