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| Gulmarg land scam: Status report filed in HC | | | Early Times Report
Jammu, Mar 23: In the much publicized Public Interest Litigation titled Sheikh Mohammad Shafi & Anr V/s Union of India & ors, wherein a fresh Miscellaneous Petition (MP No.3/2018) had been filed by the petitioners seeking directions to the Court of 1st Additional Sessions Judge Baramulla to expeditiously decide the matter on the question of framing of charges/discharge in the case titled State V/s Mehboob Iqbal & Ors (infamous Gulmarg land scam) sub-judice in the Court of 1st Additional District and Sessions Baramulla.
It was submitted during hearing that the Division Bench on August 28, 2012 then headed by Chief Justice M.M. Kumar (since retired) had directed the SVO to file charge sheet against Mehboob Iqbal (IAS), the then Divisional Commissioner, Kashmir and others in case FIR No.8/2009 VOK within a period of 02 weeks and with regard to Baseer Ahmed Khan (IAS) the then Deputy Commissioner Baramulla, the Division Bench had directed the State Government to forward his papers for grant of prosecution sanction under Section 6 of J&K Prevention of Corruption Act to the DoPT Govt. of India.
On September 25, 2012 SVO filed the charge sheet against Mehboob Iqbal (IAS) and 17 others in the Court of Additional Special Judge (Anti-Corruption) Srinagar and on October 5, 2013 the said case was transferred to the Court of 1st Additional District and Sessions Judge Baramulla. Advocate Ahmed further submitted that DoPT granted prosecution sanction against Baseer Ahmed Khan and a supplementary challan was also presented against him and the same was clubbed with the challan titled State V/s Mehboob Iqbal and Ors.
It was submitted the incumbent Divisional Commissioner Kashmir Baseer Ahmed Khan (IAS) against whom the Division Bench had earlier ruled that being accused in Gulmarg land scam cannot be allowed to occupy the coveted post of Deputy Commissioner Srinagar and the Division Bench had directed the State Government to post him on any other equivalent post but not on the prime position of Divisional Commissioner Srinagar in view of his facing serious allegations of corruption in FIR No.08/2009 P/S VOK.
On the directions of the State High Court issued on Administrative side, the 1st Additional District and Sessions Judge, Baramulla has filed a status report in case. It is worthwhile to mention herein that FIR No.08/2009 P/S VOK (infamous Gulmarg land scam) came to be registered in the year 2009 against high profile bureaucrats and top hoteliers of Kashmir Valley for grabbing the land of Gulmarg Development Authority by getting it regularized under Roshini Act situated at World Famous Picturesque Tourist Resort Gulmarg and Challan in this case was presented on the intervention of the State High Court on September 25, 2012 and till date the matter is lingering on before the trial court on the question of framing of charge/ discharge. |
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