Early Times Report
Jammu, Jan 24: In compliance of Special Judge Anticorruption Jammu for further investigation in ETT scam, Special Director General of Crime Branch constituted a committee headed by Sudhanshu Verma IPS further investigation.
The other SIT members are Bhagwan Singh dandia, DySP EOW CB CRIME , Inspector Naveen EOW CB JAMMU, Inspector Mohammad Irfan EOW CB Jammu, Inspector Sumit Magotra, Inspector Ashwani Kumar EOW CB JAMMU.
It is worthwhile to mention here that SIT has to make further investigation in the case to ascertain the roles of the then edu ministers, seceretaries education, chairmen JKBose and many more promoters/ owners of such fake institutes. Also to recover and seize original copies of the permissions issued by the accused.
It is worthwhile to mention here that the special Anticorruption court, Jammu has directed Crime Branch, Jammu for further investigation in the case. In his findings, the Special Judge Anticorruption Court Jammu, Tahir Khurshid Raina , while directing further investigation in the case , has passed strictures against the IO of the case and the then SS.P crime who was acting as SHO police station crime branch jammu under whose supervision this sham and and shoddy investigation was done in a scam of high magnitude , court observed. Even the directions of the High Court at Srinagar, passed in the PIL relating to investigation of this case , have been violated with impunity by the crime branch, as observed by the Judge.
While directing further investigation, Court observed that investigate roles of Successive Ministers of Education after 2000, including Secretaries education & Chairmans BOSE, J&K and further Investigation to be done by an IPS officer not below the rank of SS.P and Status report to be filed before the court fortnightly and further investigation to be completed within two months.
This scam became subject matter of investigation on the communication of the then Chairman JKBOSE in 2013 , which resulted into registration of two FIRs bearing NO’s - 36/2013 at PS Crime branch jammu and FIR No - 27/ 2013 at PS Crime Branch , Srinagar , u/ss 420, 468 , 471 , 120-B RPC r/w 5(2) PC Act and investigation was ensued. It’s important to mention that before the communication of the Chairman BOSE , the matter has already landed in the High Court at Srinagar through a PIL- 201/2011 filed by PARENTS COORDINATION COMMITTEE , wherein catena of directions were passed to the government , JKBOSE and the investigating agency about the subject matter to ensure fair investigation in the case of high public importance . The PIL was finally disposed off in 2019 when it was conveyed to the High court that the charge sheets got filed by the crime branch in the Anticorruption courts at Srinagar and jammu and a new government order is issued relating to ETT institutes .
The main chargeshheet was filed in Special Anticorruption court , Jammu in 2015 against Bashir Ahmed Dar , the then Director Academics , JKBOSE in the year 2002- 04 and five other accused who were the beneficiaries called promoters/owners of the ETT institutes. This chargeshheet mostly related to the alleged scam based on admission - session 2003 to 2005 .
Simultaneously Crime branch jammu filed few more supplementary charge sheets based on academic sessions 2005- 07, 2007-09 etc. All the said chargeshheets are pending disposal since 2015 in the said court.
The court after hearing preliminary arguments in the case , deferred framing of the charge in the case and observed that for doing substantial justice in the case , further investigation in the case is inevitable. Accordingly directed so to be completed within two months. Special DG , crime , UT of J& k has been directed to constitute a SIT for further investigation , to be headed by an IPS officer not below the rank of SS.P. SIT has been directed to file a status report fortnightly before the court. JNF |
