Anti-Corruption Bureau registered case against Mrs. Farzana Naqashbandi, then Sr. Town Planner, Municipal Corporation Jammu and Sh. Kiran Wattal, then Commissioner, Municipal Corporation Jammu for criminal misconduct, abuse and misuse of their official position as public servants while issuing building permission in favour of Pardeep Kumar and Kuldeep Kumar sons of Sh. Shanti Prakash with dishonest intentions.
A verification was conducted into the allegations that building permission was granted to Pardeep Kumar and Kuldeep Kumar for raising a residential as well as commercial structure at Gummat Chowk Jammu, illegally and against laid down procedure of Municipal Corporation Jammu. The Senior Town Planner Mrs. Farzana Naqashbandi recommended case of the applicant to the then Municipal Commissioner Jammu, Shri Kiran Wattal who approved the building permission without referring it to BOCA or UTEIC ignoring objections raised by ACR Jammu and AC Nazool, deliberately and with malafide intentions.
During verification proceedings, it also came to fore that land in question was basically state land and acquired by Rani Blori temple during the rule of Maharaja but the officers relied upon the notarised lease deed which contained cuttings and unclear land specifications/Khasra number and despite these inherent defects, the permission was granted in favour of the beneficiaries, illegally thereby conferring huge pecuniary advantage upon them as the permission in question facilitated them to raise a huge commercial structure at the prime location near Gummat Chowk, Jammu.
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