SVO’s 4th case against LAWDA

Excelsior Correspondent

JAMMU, Dec 21: The Vigilance Organization Kashmir has registered yet another case, 4th one, against the officials of Enforcement Wing of Lakes and Waterways Development Authority (LAWDA) Srinagar for allowing illegal construction.
Verifications into a complaint revealed that the LAWDA officials allowed illegal construction of a double storey house owned and constructed by Imtiyaz Ahmad Shah alias Billu Kawoosa at Ishber Nishat in the year 2014 without any building permission. Verification further revealed that the construction of the said structure has been raised in the active knowledge and with intentional aid of the Enforcement Wing of LAWDA Srinagar but the then Enforcement Officer of LAWDA Srinagar namely Shah Sikander Khan, DySP and his Enforcement staff by acting in league with each other and with the beneficiary, allowed to raise this illegal construction and then neither stopped nor demolished the said structure.
By acting in the aforesaid manner,  the then Enforcement Officer Shah Sikander Khan and others,  by abuse of their official positions,  conferred undue favour/ advantage/benefit and wrongful gain to building owner  Imtiyaz Ahmad Shah.
Accordingly,   a case FIR No. 53/2015 P/S VOK has been registered against the then Enforcement officer Dy SP  Shah Sikander Khan and  others and beneficiary under Section 5(1)(d) r/w Section 5(2) J&K P.C Act, Svt. 2006 and section 120-B RPC.
It is pertinent to mention here that this is the 4th case registered at VOK against the Officers/officials of LAWDA Srinagar in the instant year. The other cases registered at VOK include FIR No. 17/2015, 48/2005, & FIR No.52/2015.