Excelsior Correspondent
SRINAGAR, Oct 14: The Enforcement Directorate (ED) attached immovable properties worth Rs 1.31 crore of four accused involved in the infamous entrance examination of MBBS question paper leak case.
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These properties belonged to Sajad Hussain Bhat, Mohd Amin Ganie, Suhail Ahmad Wani and Shabir Ahmad Dar at Srinagar and its nearby places were attached by the ED under the provisions of the Prevention of Money Laundering Act (PMLA), 2002
The ED initiated an investigation on the basis of an FIR registered by the Crime Branch, J&K Police, Srinagar against Mushtaq Ahmed Peer, the then Chairman of the Board of Professional Entrance Examination (BOPEE) and others.
The ED investigation revealed that Mushtaq Ahmed Peer, the then Chairman of BOPEE, Farooq Ahmad Itoo, Sajad Hussain Bhat, Mohd. Amin Ganie, Suhail Ahmad Wani, Shabir Ahmad Dar and others were involved in the sale of leaked question papers of JKCET 2012.
By selling question papers of JKCET-2012, the ED said, the accused generated Proceeds of Crime to the tune of Rs. 2.50 crore and utilised them. All the accused persons including the above persons have been convicted by the Special Court Anti-Corruption, Srinagar in the case.
Earlier, the ED had attached immovable and movable properties worth Rs 60 lakh of Mushtaq Ahmed Peer, the then Chairman of BOPEE in 2015.
A charge sheet was filed against him and it is pending before the Srinagar Special PMLA court in 2015 and others.
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