Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, Aug 13: Anti Corruption Bureau (ACB). J&K registered a case against the then Naib Tehsildar Gharota, Ashok Kumar for generating huge assets.
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The ACB registered a case FIR No. 10/2024 under section 13(1)(b) r/w 13(2) Prevention of Corruption Act 1988 (as amended in 2018) in Police Station ACB Jammu on the outcome of a verification conducted into the allegations that the accused namely- Ashok Kumar, the then Naib Tehsildar Gharota in Jammu has acquired huge assets disproportionate to his known source of income.
During the year 2022, the said NaibTehsildar was arrested by ACB along-with his ‘middleman’ Raman Gupta for demanding and accepting bribe of Rs 1.5 lakh for issuance of Fard document. Accordingly FIR No. 06/2022 was registered at Police Station ACB Central on June 29, 2022 and investigation was taken up. During the course of investigation, verification was also initiated.
The verification conducted by the Bureau team revealed that the accused public servant during his posting accumulated various moveable and immoveable properties on his own name and on the names of his family members which includes one Palatial house (Duplex) situated near BDO office, Akhnoor worth crores, movable assets i.e., luxury car and two wheelers, other immovable/movable assets, huge bank accounts balance and expenditures made through the said bank accounts etc.
The probe further revealed that huge money was spent by suspect on the marriage of his daughter, besides the suspect’s family is having luxurious lifestyle. As per probe conducted, the expenditure incurred and the value of assets acquired by suspect have been found to be disproportionate to the income earned by him from all known sources.
Further, investigation was in progress.
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