Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, Mar 24: State Vigilance Organization today produced charge sheet against the then MD of State Financial Corporation along with other officials and private persons for abuse and misuse of official position in forged and manipulated auction of M/s Anand Bricks Pvt. Ltd and M/s Jammu Ceramics Pvt. Ltd located at Kangrail Mishriwala.
The challan in the case FIR No. 07/2011 under Section 5(1)(c)(d) read with 5(2) J&K PC Act, 2006 and Section 467, 468, 471, 419, 420, 201 and 120-B RPC registered at Police Station Vigilance Organization, Jammu, was produced in the court of Special Judge, Anti-corruption, Jammu.
The challan has been produced against Ejaz Iqbal, the then MD State Financial Corporation along with Rajinder Prasad, the then Chief Manager large branch office SFC, Ravinder Mishra, the then Manager Industries large branch office SFC, Bhola Nath Sharma, the then Assistant Manager large branch office SFC, Aslam Din Choudhary, the then Naib Tehsildar Bhalwal, Ram Dayal, the then Patwari Halqa Kangrail, Sham Lal Gupta (Surveyor), Rakesh Kumar Choudhary, Amit Kumar Gupta and Ravi Gautam.
The case was registered on May 19, 2011 on the basis of joint raids conducted by the teams of Vigilance Organization in the premises of large branch office SFC Jammu and Srinagar simultaneously following the allegations of fraudulent and manipulated auction done in the year 2009 of M/s Anand Bricks Pvt. Ltd and M/s Jammu Ceramics Pvt. Ltd belonging to late Rabinder Nath Anand located at Kangrail Mishriwala.
During investigation, it was established that the accused public servants in criminal conspiracy with each other and with the private persons fraudulently processed the papers for the change of ‘lease hold rights’ to ‘absolute ownership rights’ over approximately 58 kanals and 15 Marlas of land where upon superstructures of M/s Anand Bricks Pvt. Ltd and M/s Jammu Ceramics Pvt. Ltd. were raised through a forged and manipulated auction process thereby causing wrongful and huge loss to the extent of Rs 108 lakh approximately to State Financial Corporation.
After completion of the investigation, Government sanction in respect of in-service accused officials as well as approval against the private/retired persons was obtained from the competent authority and accordingly the challan was produced in the court of Special Judge Anti-corruption.
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