Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, May 29: Crime Branch Jammu has booked some officials of Commercial Tax Department Jammu and owners of different properties for misappropriation of Property Tax in Jammu.
A case FIR number 11/2014, under Section 420, 465, 466, 568, 471, 120-B RPC, read with Section 5(2) PC Act Svt 2006, has been registered against Nutan Paul, Ishtiyaq Ahmed, Junior Assistants with Assessing Authority of Commercial Taxes Department, Jammu and private persons S R Sharma and Ramesh Chander Khajuria.
The accused officials allegedly connived with the private persons for misappropriation of Property tax in Jammu.
In 2009, there was a complaint filed the then Additional Commissioner Commercial Taxes (Admn) alleging misappropriation of the money on the account of Property Tax in Jammu.
The Crime Branch verifications revealed that Nutan Paul and Ishtiyaq Ahmed during their positing since 2003 tempered office record by projecting higher amount in the `Warrant of Arrest’, issued on the name of the owner of the properties but reflecting the lower amount in challan against the same properties vide which money was received. The difference of money was swindled away by the accused persons.
The Crime Branch verifications further revealed that the accused officials dishonestly favoured private persons S R Sharma and Ramesh Chander Khajuria by accepting their wrong affidavits stating therein that the properties were not rented out. The officers and officials of Assessing Authority, Commercial Taxes Department, also favoured other private persons for extraneous consideration and the records are misplaced from the office.
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