Excelsior Correspondent
SRINAGAR, Nov 12: Special Judge Anticorruption Kashmir R N Wattal has rejected the bail application of Tariq Ahmad Ganie, JE Housing Board, who was booked by Anticorruption Kashmir in Disproportinate Assets (DA) case.
“In recent times we are witnessing the plague of corruption effecting every department with certain exceptions. The influx of corruption and its intensity is much in engineering departments where the Architects/Engineers indulge in acts of corruption so as to mint money to become rich in very short period of time”, the court said.
“The works are not being executed on spot instead remain paper tigers and the experts who are assigned the duty of execution of work on spot pursuant to the conspiracy use sub-standard material and at times do not execute the works and accumulate assets disproportionate to their known source of income”, the court further said, adding “the accumulation of assets by these corrupt engineers is in complete disregard to their official position and against the object for which they are imparted training in Engineering Colleges on the expenditure incurred by the Government on the public money”.
“The petitioner is one of such officials who in complete disregard to his official position though holding the important post of JE was having deceitful, despicable and corrupt intent to steal the public money amounting to crore of rupees and the immovable property at commercial locations”, the court said, adding “a young engineer like the petitioner having accumulated the assets in very short span of time can never be taken in good taste by a common man who believes in honesty and whose main aim and object is nation building”.
The court further said, “the case has assumed public importance and any concession of bail in favour of petitioner will be denounced by the society and faith of a common man on this esteemed institution may be eroded, same may encourage those who believe in resorting to corrupt practices to mint money”.
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