Excelsior Correspondent
SRINAGAR, July 12: Full Bench of State Vigilance Commission (SVC) comprising Chief Vigilance Commissioner, Kuldeep Khoda and Vigilance Commissioners Dr R K Jerath and Gous-ul-Nisa Jeelani today sought personal appearance of Director Floriculture on August 2, 2016 for explaining the reasons of inaction on his part in a complaint regarding illegal occupation of a shop outside Cheshma Shahi Mughal Garden resulting in huge loss to the Government exchequer continuously for several years.
In the complaint lodged by one Sheikh Nayeem Ahmad on the basis of information obtained under Right to Information Act from Floriculture Department, it has been alleged that a shop under the name and style of “Tourist Photo Studio” has been given to one Mohd Amin Pahloo by flouting the laid down norms.
During the perusal of record by the State Vigilance Commission it came to the fore that shop in question was occupied by Mohd Amin illegally without any agreement with the Floriculture Department. In the year 1979, Mohd Amin approached Civil Court with the suit for perpetual injunction against Floriculture Department and others with the prayer not to evict him from suit premises. The court vide judgment dated 22/03/2007 issued directions not to evict Mohd Amin from the shop without following due procedure under law.
“It is strange that despite court decree passed in 2007, same was not agitated by the Floriculture Department before the higher court as a result of which shop continued to remain under illegal occupation”, the Commission has observed, adding “the occupant was neither evicted nor has he paid any rent to the concerned department, and the Floriculture Department continues inaction which has resulted into a huge loss to the State exchequer”.
The Director Floriculture, in personal appearance notice, has been asked to explain the continued inaction by him and the administrative department for several decades.
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