The Enforcement Directorate (ED) on Friday searched nine places in Jammu and Kashmir for grabbing land related to custodian land property and corruption in Nine places in Jammu and Kashmir.
According to officials, searches were conducted against Patwari Pranav Dev Singh, Patwari Rahul Kai, Naib Tehsildar Akil Ahmed and many others involved in the case. This investigation is based on the first information report (FIR) lodged by the Anti -Corruption Bureau (Central), Jammu and Kashmir Police in 2022. The zengist is doubted with the transfer of the reservation and illegal land in Jammu region.
The Jammu and Kashmir Anti-Corruption Bureau has exposed one of the major land scams in Jammu and Kashmir, in which Custodian land in Asarwan, Mishriwala and Bhalwal area of Jammu district was grabbed by the land mafia with the connivance of officials of Custodian, Revenue and Police Departments.
It was then reported that thousands of kanal lands in Asarwan, Mishriwala and Bhalwal of Jammu were cheated by landlords and gangsters and cheated on the connivance of revenue and police officers. The land has been sold to many people by tampering with revenue records.
The ACB had done a formal verification in which it was found that to carry out criminal conspiracy, various PoK refugees were obtained Form 3-A (Form Alph) with the Power of Attorney (POA), they were tempted by additional land and they were provided with immediate funds from Rs 5,000 to Rs 50,000 through land grabbers, and after that they were provided with immediate funds of Rs 5,000 to Rs 50,000. In the revenue records by misusing the official positions, entries were made and additions to additional parts of the patron land, and these lands were sold to various persons, including leaders and members of their own gang, which caused heavy losses.
Prima facie, due to confirmation of alliances in the transfer of patron land through fraud between criminal elements and land grabbers and revenue, fraud between officers and employees, ACB has registered five formal cases in Central Jammu and Kashmir for investigation under the provisions of Prevention of Corruption Act, criminal conspiracy, fraud, forgery and fraud.
