Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, Dec 31: In four different cases, the State Vigilance Organization has booked former Chairman and Managing Director of JCCBL, officials of Revenue Department, Toll Post Lower Munda Qazigund and other Departments.
Former Chairman and Managing Director of Jammu Central Cooperative Bank Ltd have been booked for backdoor appointments in the bank.
The Vigilance verification revealed that Arun Baskhi during his tenure from 2007 to 2011, in different official capacities i.e as a General Manager (Adm) and Managing Director of JCCBL, in connivance with the then Chairmen JCCBL, Mohd Sharief Tariq (now dead) and Mohinder Singh, got illegally appointed 19 beneficiaries as Cashier-cum-Clerks. The appointments were made on temporarily basis without following the laid down procedures/norms on pick and choose manner and subsequently under a well hatched criminal conspiracy, these beneficiaries were regularized through Board of Directors in contravention of laid down rules/norms.
As such, a case FIR No.41/2015 has been registered in Vigilance Organization, Jammu under section 5(1) (d) r/w 5(2) J&K P C Act Svt. 2006 Section 120-B RPC on the prima facie establishment of offences on the part of public servants namely Arun Bakshi the then GM (Adm)/MD (JCCBL), Mohinder Singh, the then Chairman, (JCCBL) and others.
In a separate case, the officers and officials of Revenue department were booked for issuing of different Revenue Extracts of same property, a house with land measuring 4 marlas and 188 Sqft situated at Bakshi Nagar Jammu. The piece of State land, falling under Khasra No. 45 Min of Jammu Khas was in possession of Kamala Devi, wife of Bodh Raj of Rajpura, Bakshi Nagar, Jammu and a house was constructed over the said land. The said land was regularized in favour of above said lady vide Govt order No. UD 208 of 1989 dated 16/08/1989 and JDA No. JDA/DLM/Reg/989-90 dated 01/10/2005 and was mutated in her favour vide mutation No. 3368 and attested by the Tehsildar Jammu on 07.10.2005. Thereafter, Kamala Devi gifted the said house to her son namely Sunil Dutt alias Sunil Kumar, son of Bodh Raj vide gift deed dated 19.11.2005 and in this regard, a mutation No.3402 was recorded/attested on 25.11.2005 in favour of said Sunil Dutt. By acting in the aforesaid manner, Vijay Kumar, then Patwari Halqa Khas (now Girdawar), S Daleep Singh, then Girdawar Jammu Khas (now retired), Shaloo Ram, then Naib Teshildar Jammu Khas, (now Tehsildar) Janak Raj then Patwari Halqa Jammu Khas (now retired), in connivance with Sunil Dutt and his mother Kamla Devi, abused their official positions. They conferred undue pecuniary advantage upon Sunil Dutt, Kamla Devi and themselves and also caused wrongful loss to Kishore Lal and J&K Bank Branch Bari Brahamana.
As such, case FIR No. 40/2015 P/S VOJ has been registered in Vigilance Organization, Jammu u/s 5 (1)(d) r/w 5 (2) P.C Act 2006, 120-B, 420, 467,468 and 471 RPC on the prima facie establishment of offences on the part of the aforementioned public servants and others.
In another case, officers and Officials of Toll Post Lower Munda Qazigund were booked today for abusing their official positions by way of receiving excess toll charges as fixed by the Government from fruit laden trucks.
Case FIR No. 55/2015 of P/ S VOK, U/S 5(1) D, E 5(2) P.C. Act and section 420 RPC was registered against the officials following a joint surprise check, conducted by a team of VOK. During the course of JSC, it was also revealed that the excess money detected/recovered at various collection counters of Toll Post Qazigund was unaccounted and unexplained and as such found collected from gullible drivers by the officials on duty by way of cheating and abusing their official positions.
The Vigilance Organization , in a separate case, has booked officers and officials of various departments after spot inspection of works at Katli Hiranagar. Out of total 28 works, eight were randomly taken and got inspected through Engineering wing of VOJ and it was found that a loss to the tune of Rs 1,62,453 lacs has been caused to the State exchequer in executed/non-existent works.
During the enquiry, it has been further found that concerned measurement books and some files of concerned works have also been misplaced deliberately by the concerned officials in order to conceal the frauds committed by them during the execution of works in question. The concerned public servants in connivance with Yash Paul Singh, Sarpanch Halqa Katli Hirangar and other civil beneficiaries, have caused loss to State exchequer and wrongful gain to the private beneficiaries illegally.
In this connection, case FIR No.42/2015 P/S VOJ U/S 5(1)(c)(d) r/w section 5(2) P.C. Act and sections 120-b, 201 RPC has been registered in Vigilance Organization Jammu, into the allegations against Sarpanch Yash Paul Singh and officers/officials of various departments i.e. BDO office Hiranagar/Social Welfare/CA&PD/Education and concerned banks for committing frauds and looting State exchequer by illegal means under the garb of various construction works.
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