Early Times Report
Jammu, May 29 : Crime Branch, Jammu has registered a case FIR No. 11/2014 u/s 420,465, 466, 467, 468, 471, 120-B RPC, r/s Sec. 5(2) P.C.Act Svt.2006 against Nutan Paul, Junior Assistant and Istiayaq Ahmed , Junior Assistant, Officers & officials of Assessing Authority of Commercial Taxes Department, Jammu who connived with private persons and the owners of the different properties S.R.Sharma, Ramesh Chander Khajuria and others for misappropriations of the money on the account of Property Tax in Jammu. Brief facts of the case are that a complaint filed by the then Additional Commissioner Commercial Taxes (Admn) Jammu on 17.12.2009 on the allegations of misappropriations of the money on the account of Property Tax in Jammu has revealed that Nutan Paul, Junior Assistant & Istiayaq Ahmed , Junior Assistant Officers & officials of Assessing Authority of Commercial Taxes Department, Jammu connived with private persons and the owners of the different properties S.R.Sharma, Ramesh Chander Khajuria and others to swindle away the money collected on the account of property tax and thus caused wrongful loss of the state Exchequer. Verification conducted has revealed that Nutan Paul and Ishtiaq Ahmed during their posting since 2003 tampered office records by projecting higher amount in the 'Warrant of Arrest' to be issued on the name of the owners of the properties but reflecting the lower amount in the 'challans' against the same properties vide which money was received. The difference of the money was swindled away by the accused persons.
Verification conducted further reveals that the officers & officials of Assessing Authority of Commercial Taxes Department, Jammu without adhering to the prescribed procedure, dishonestly favoured private persons S. R. Sharma, Ramesh Chander Khajuria by accepting their wrong affidavits stating therein that the properties were not rented out to Geological survey of India and Steel authority of India respectively.
The Officers of Assessing Authority for extraneous considerations favoured the private persons and bailed them out from depositing the property tax.
It is also revealed that the officers/officials of Assessing authority have favoured other private persons and the records are also misplaced from the office.On this a formal case has been registered under the relevant sections of law against the above mentioned accused persons and investigation of the case is in progress. |
