Excelsior Correspondent
SRINAGAR, Feb 20: The Vigilance Organization has booked then Commissioner Srinagar Municipal Corporation and officials of SMC Building Operation Controlling Authority (BOCA) for granting building permissions in contravention to approved Srinagar Master Plan and thus abusing their official position.
Vigilance verification revealed that in the year 2009 Officers/officials of BOCA and the then Commissioner Municipal Srinagar granted building permission number 188, dated 10-7-2009 in favour of Tariq Ahmad Beigh of Rajbagh Srinagar and others for regularization of deviation to the existing four storeyed shopping complex with basement floor on plot of land under survey No. 885 min situated opposite Exhibition Ground in Revenue Estate of Nursingh Garh Srinagar, in suppression of earlier Building Permission No. 80 dated 03-05-2002.
Similarly in furtherance of criminal conspiracy, these officials granted building Permission No. 189 dated 10-07-2009 in favour of Haji Mehrahudin of Khanyar Srinagar for regularization of deviation to the existing four storeyed shopping complex with basement floor on a plot of land under survey No.885 min situated opposite Exhibition Ground in Revenue Estate of Nursingh Garh Srinagar in suppressions of earlier Building Permission No. 806 dated 18-12-2000.
The Officers/Officials of BOCA by issuing Building Permission No’s 188 and189 dated 10-07-2009 have regularized gross deviation/violation on the part of building owners in construction of commercial complexes, which are in contravention to approved Srinagar Master Plan 2000-2021 and provisions of COBO Act and Bye-Laws and Rules thereof.
The omissions and commissions on the part of these Public servants and the beneficiaries constitute offences punishable under Section 5(1), (d) read with Sec 5(2) J&K P C Act 2006 and section 120-B RPC.
Accordingly, FIR number 11/2015 was registered at Police Station Vigilance Organization Kashmir and further investigation was taken up.
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