Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, Oct 12: In the much publicized PIL alleging hushing up of Rajouri Development Authority scam, Division Bench of the State High Court comprising Justice Dhiraj Singh Thakur and Justice B S Walia today directed State Vigilance Organization to produce the entire record of Verification No 31 of 2009 wherein the it recommended regular departmental action against the officers of Rajouri Development Authority.
The Division Bench further directed that on production of record the same shall be allowed to be perused by the counsel for petitioner Advocate Sheikh Shakeel Ahmed, who will file his response thereafter. The Division Bench also directed the Registry to list this PIL in 2nd week of November.
Earlier, when the PIL came up for hearing, Advocate SS Ahmed with Advocate Suraj Singh and Advocate Syed Hamza appearing for the petitioner Prof S K Bhalla invited the attention of DB towards the response filed by the State Vigilance Organisation wherein it was submitted that the report of Branch SSP was examined in the Central Office of Vigilance Organization and the Branch SSP vide letter dated March 26, 2015 was asked to furnish draft FIR in the matter.
The Branch SSP accordingly provided draft FIR vide his letter dated April 1, 2015 and the Central Office examined the draft FIR vis-a-vis detailed report submitted earlier by the Branch SSP alongwith the reports of XEn Vigilance Organization Jammu.
AAG P C Sharma appearing for SVO further submitted that no criminality was found on the part of delinquent public servants and it was considered appropriate to apprise the Government regarding lapses found to have been committed by the suspect public servants namely Javed Ahmed Khan, the then Chief Executive Officer, Rajouri Development Authority and Devi Dass Heera, the then Executive Engineer, Rajouri Development Authority.
While rebutting the reply filed by SVO, Advocate Ahmed pointed out that in the instant case the proved case of corruption was converted into censure just to shield the influential officers of Rajouri Development Authority.
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